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TOMBS WITH PERFECT BODIES.
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a boy, head north, with a green glazed pottery
cylinder with impressed pattern (pi. xxvi. 37,
38); and a body, neck north, but headless. From
three of these being with head north, and the
fourth only turned to east for lack of room,
it is clear that these belong to the contracted
burials of the Old Kingdom, and not to those
of the New Race, which always have the head
to south.
(30.) F. Burials of uncertain treatment.
Many tombs were so much disturbed by
plundering that it could not be said whether the
bodies had been complete or dissevered. Of these
the numbers are given in the list at the head of
this chapter, and here we shall only note those
that showed some detail. 42. Pottery pans and
a copper pan : jars of pointed form; leg of a
calf; stem of a wooden head-rest. 93. Rough
jars with caps of mud upon them (pi. xxxiii.
21), but containing only loose lumps of mud.
99. Very open net-work stuff of linen: the
"fishing-net" dress of Seneferu's roAving
damsels (see sect. 43). 103. A wooden statue,
considerably weathered, lay in the well.
1176. Block of wooden boat, 38 ins. long,
lay in tomb.
It is thus seen that there is no special type of
burial associated with the perfect bodies, but
they are found alike with coffins or without,
full length or contracted.
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TOMBS WITH PERFECT BODIES.
19
a boy, head north, with a green glazed pottery
cylinder with impressed pattern (pi. xxvi. 37,
38); and a body, neck north, but headless. From
three of these being with head north, and the
fourth only turned to east for lack of room,
it is clear that these belong to the contracted
burials of the Old Kingdom, and not to those
of the New Race, which always have the head
to south.
(30.) F. Burials of uncertain treatment.
Many tombs were so much disturbed by
plundering that it could not be said whether the
bodies had been complete or dissevered. Of these
the numbers are given in the list at the head of
this chapter, and here we shall only note those
that showed some detail. 42. Pottery pans and
a copper pan : jars of pointed form; leg of a
calf; stem of a wooden head-rest. 93. Rough
jars with caps of mud upon them (pi. xxxiii.
21), but containing only loose lumps of mud.
99. Very open net-work stuff of linen: the
"fishing-net" dress of Seneferu's roAving
damsels (see sect. 43). 103. A wooden statue,
considerably weathered, lay in the well.
1176. Block of wooden boat, 38 ins. long,
lay in tomb.
It is thus seen that there is no special type of
burial associated with the perfect bodies, but
they are found alike with coffins or without,
full length or contracted.
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