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opinion that the ox scene belonged to the north
wall of Ahanekht's tomb, and the inscription to
the destroyed tomb lying between that and N.
The other fragment is part of a large incised
inscription, seemingly from the lintel of a door-
way. It bears the names of Tehutinekht and
of ......nekht born of Ankh...... I am
unable to locate it with certainty.1
The whole of tomb No. 5 had been ex-
tensively quarried before the eai'th quake, the
east wall and partition wall between the two
chambers having been almost entirely removed.
Here the effects of the earthquake, therefore,
were more than usually severe. The upper
part of the facade slid some 24" beyond the
lower ; the roof split up in the first chamber,
and although the walls were almost entirely
gone, the fragments jammed together and held
up. In the second chamber the roof came
down bodily in the centre, and when we were
clearing it the great central mass of some 100
tons, which was bedded on the rubbish in the
middle of the room, began to move, and we
wrere obliged to abandon the tomb hastily. We
were unable to clear the second chamber en-
tirely, though we trenched along the walls for
some distance. The way in which the roof
is hanging together by the jamming of the
various pieces is very curious, and it is not at
all safe to work under it.
The next tomb appears never to have been
finished, and has been almost entirely quarried
away. Between it and the next is the exit
from the long subterranean quarry H (p. 57).
Tomb No. 6 is a plain uninscribed square
chamber, containing one large shaft; the front
has been quarried away.
Tomb No. 7 was made for Nehera. It has
been much quarried. In plan (pi. xviii.) it was a
large square chamber measuring 229-5"x236T,
1 This is attributed by Mr. Newberry to a Tomb 6, of which
it would be the only relic : see pi. iii., and p. 36.—Ed.
with a height of 9TG". In the centre of the north
wall there was a long, narrow, low chamber,
intended for burial purposes, which had been
closed with a stone slab. It is similar to the
chambers in the YIth Dynasty tombs in the
lower groups. There appear to have been two
or three great shafts in the floor, but as the
facade has been entirely quarried away, we did
not consider it worth while to incur the extra
expense which the complete clearance would
have entailed. The chamber has been painted
all over, but very little of the decoration now
remains, except on the ceiling, which is en-
tirely covered with inscriptions similar to
those on the roof of tomb No. 1. It does not
seem to have suffered from the earthquake
shock.
Just beyond No. 7 a spur of rock juts out,
which had been cut to receive some small stelae
that have themselves disappeared.
Following the track we come to a large
quarry, in wdiich there are the remains of a stela
carved in the thirty-third year of the reign
of Thothmes III.2 Hardly anything of the
stela is now visible, as it was lately (1891)
defaced by the Arabs. There is also a flattened
surface for another stela, but without inscrip-
tion. The quarry is at the corner of the hill,
and in front of it is a levelled space of rock,
where numerous small columns have been cut
out.
Turning the corner, we find a succession of
small quarries containing a few Coptic graffiti,
and on a ledge of rock above one of them
Mr. Blackden found three graffiti : (1) a man
standing, with the name Nekht above him;
(2) the name Nekht cut in large early
characters ; (3) a small false door or shrine.
They are all considerably wreathered, but 1
succeeded in taking a squeeze of No. 2.
2 Published by Sharpe, Egyptian Inscriptions, 2nd Series,
pis. 33 and 47, from copies by A. C. Harris.—Ed.
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EL BBRSHEH.
opinion that the ox scene belonged to the north
wall of Ahanekht's tomb, and the inscription to
the destroyed tomb lying between that and N.
The other fragment is part of a large incised
inscription, seemingly from the lintel of a door-
way. It bears the names of Tehutinekht and
of ......nekht born of Ankh...... I am
unable to locate it with certainty.1
The whole of tomb No. 5 had been ex-
tensively quarried before the eai'th quake, the
east wall and partition wall between the two
chambers having been almost entirely removed.
Here the effects of the earthquake, therefore,
were more than usually severe. The upper
part of the facade slid some 24" beyond the
lower ; the roof split up in the first chamber,
and although the walls were almost entirely
gone, the fragments jammed together and held
up. In the second chamber the roof came
down bodily in the centre, and when we were
clearing it the great central mass of some 100
tons, which was bedded on the rubbish in the
middle of the room, began to move, and we
wrere obliged to abandon the tomb hastily. We
were unable to clear the second chamber en-
tirely, though we trenched along the walls for
some distance. The way in which the roof
is hanging together by the jamming of the
various pieces is very curious, and it is not at
all safe to work under it.
The next tomb appears never to have been
finished, and has been almost entirely quarried
away. Between it and the next is the exit
from the long subterranean quarry H (p. 57).
Tomb No. 6 is a plain uninscribed square
chamber, containing one large shaft; the front
has been quarried away.
Tomb No. 7 was made for Nehera. It has
been much quarried. In plan (pi. xviii.) it was a
large square chamber measuring 229-5"x236T,
1 This is attributed by Mr. Newberry to a Tomb 6, of which
it would be the only relic : see pi. iii., and p. 36.—Ed.
with a height of 9TG". In the centre of the north
wall there was a long, narrow, low chamber,
intended for burial purposes, which had been
closed with a stone slab. It is similar to the
chambers in the YIth Dynasty tombs in the
lower groups. There appear to have been two
or three great shafts in the floor, but as the
facade has been entirely quarried away, we did
not consider it worth while to incur the extra
expense which the complete clearance would
have entailed. The chamber has been painted
all over, but very little of the decoration now
remains, except on the ceiling, which is en-
tirely covered with inscriptions similar to
those on the roof of tomb No. 1. It does not
seem to have suffered from the earthquake
shock.
Just beyond No. 7 a spur of rock juts out,
which had been cut to receive some small stelae
that have themselves disappeared.
Following the track we come to a large
quarry, in wdiich there are the remains of a stela
carved in the thirty-third year of the reign
of Thothmes III.2 Hardly anything of the
stela is now visible, as it was lately (1891)
defaced by the Arabs. There is also a flattened
surface for another stela, but without inscrip-
tion. The quarry is at the corner of the hill,
and in front of it is a levelled space of rock,
where numerous small columns have been cut
out.
Turning the corner, we find a succession of
small quarries containing a few Coptic graffiti,
and on a ledge of rock above one of them
Mr. Blackden found three graffiti : (1) a man
standing, with the name Nekht above him;
(2) the name Nekht cut in large early
characters ; (3) a small false door or shrine.
They are all considerably wreathered, but 1
succeeded in taking a squeeze of No. 2.
2 Published by Sharpe, Egyptian Inscriptions, 2nd Series,
pis. 33 and 47, from copies by A. C. Harris.—Ed.
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