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ABYDOS I.
plunderers in search of amulets. Torn from the
breast was the pectoral, and on the feet was the
foot case, shown in pi. lxxix, 9. These are well
made and finely painted. BeloAV the mummy,
about the middle, was the bead fringe, figure 8;
probably displaced from the neck. And at the
side of the feet was a small mummified dog (?),
carefully swathed in wrappings.
The great tomb G 58, pi. lxxx, had been
utterly plundered, and partly filled with broken
coffins and rubbish. The original sarcophagus
was found in place, and most of the pieces of
the lid. It was figure-shajped, larger than any
other such sarcophagi, and of a fine hard
crystalline limestone. The inscription, as far
as it could be recovered, gives the name of
Nefert-iut, a chantress of Khent amentit, and is
copied in pi. lxxxv. Two fragments which
cannot be put in place, are shown at the side.
In the great court Gr. 57 a lid of a sarco-
phagus was found, broken in two, and bearing
an inscription in red paint. This is photo-
graphed on pi. lxxix, (>, and has been copied in
facsimile but is not yet published.
Later than all these a tomb of the type of
Gr. 50 had been stripped of its chambers ; and on
the floor of the open court Avhich was left, rows
of mummies were laid, side by side. On some
of these Avere networks of blue tube beads, of
the poorest kind; and the scarab and wings,
and four genii, of dark blue rough glaze. By
these were pieces of box coffins, made of Avood
painted red, Avith green inscriptions, rude and
poor; and the latest canopic boxes of rough
Avrood, either left plain, or Avith very coarse
figures of the genii painted in red. These
boxes instead of containing the mummified
viscera only had linen packets of broken
potsherds in them. On the floor amid the
mummies Avere hundreds of broAvn pottery
ushabtis, very roughly made, and coloured red,
black, or blue. These seem to be the A'ery
latest stage of the style of burial Avhich began
in the XXVIth Dynasty.
iptions
* i»t a*late;
taiBt.es taken ir
it P " t(
ay, biown as <*, w
ft enclosure. Altl
importoce, these inscri
wiamestothearisto
i repeat with no littli
ftkings, That this:
ffltkkndsof the pre;
Haess of Prof, Petr
enerously givei
Icult points b
:rbert Thompsor
ial thank mus
pson for permitt
notes upon the si
M. Three fra
H5 to g
name ii
H' Companion, I
?iM« Prince c
rintendent of t
«W with the
*■ ^mother"
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^ laudatoi
that he v
ier«»si
ABYDOS I.
plunderers in search of amulets. Torn from the
breast was the pectoral, and on the feet was the
foot case, shown in pi. lxxix, 9. These are well
made and finely painted. BeloAV the mummy,
about the middle, was the bead fringe, figure 8;
probably displaced from the neck. And at the
side of the feet was a small mummified dog (?),
carefully swathed in wrappings.
The great tomb G 58, pi. lxxx, had been
utterly plundered, and partly filled with broken
coffins and rubbish. The original sarcophagus
was found in place, and most of the pieces of
the lid. It was figure-shajped, larger than any
other such sarcophagi, and of a fine hard
crystalline limestone. The inscription, as far
as it could be recovered, gives the name of
Nefert-iut, a chantress of Khent amentit, and is
copied in pi. lxxxv. Two fragments which
cannot be put in place, are shown at the side.
In the great court Gr. 57 a lid of a sarco-
phagus was found, broken in two, and bearing
an inscription in red paint. This is photo-
graphed on pi. lxxix, (>, and has been copied in
facsimile but is not yet published.
Later than all these a tomb of the type of
Gr. 50 had been stripped of its chambers ; and on
the floor of the open court Avhich was left, rows
of mummies were laid, side by side. On some
of these Avere networks of blue tube beads, of
the poorest kind; and the scarab and wings,
and four genii, of dark blue rough glaze. By
these were pieces of box coffins, made of Avood
painted red, Avith green inscriptions, rude and
poor; and the latest canopic boxes of rough
Avrood, either left plain, or Avith very coarse
figures of the genii painted in red. These
boxes instead of containing the mummified
viscera only had linen packets of broken
potsherds in them. On the floor amid the
mummies Avere hundreds of broAvn pottery
ushabtis, very roughly made, and coloured red,
black, or blue. These seem to be the A'ery
latest stage of the style of burial Avhich began
in the XXVIth Dynasty.
iptions
* i»t a*late;
taiBt.es taken ir
it P " t(
ay, biown as <*, w
ft enclosure. Altl
importoce, these inscri
wiamestothearisto
i repeat with no littli
ftkings, That this:
ffltkkndsof the pre;
Haess of Prof, Petr
enerously givei
Icult points b
:rbert Thompsor
ial thank mus
pson for permitt
notes upon the si
M. Three fra
H5 to g
name ii
H' Companion, I
?iM« Prince c
rintendent of t
«W with the
*■ ^mother"
.Ad. Th(
^ laudatoi
that he v
ier«»si