THE TOMB OF SETI-MER-EN-PTAH 369

designed in red outline, here and there a small
portion had been partially engraved, showing that
the work was in progress when it was suddenly
arrested. From the centre of the hall between the
first two pillars an inclined plane leads down to the
entrance of another corridor which was evidently
originally designed to be a passage to further
chambers and the sepulchral hall, but time failed
for these plans to be carried out; death prematurely
carried off his victim and the tomb had to be used as
it was. The chamber in which the sarcophagus was
placed is truly described by Champollion : " A poor
little chamber very roughly hewn ; . . . this poor
sepulchral hall which was an unfinished corridor,
the end of which is still in an unwrought condition,
and became the sarcophagus or funereal chamber by
the accident of the death of Pharaoh."* Not a single
portion of the walls or ceiling of this vault is out-
lined, squared up, or finished; the entire surface is
rough (married. Upon the walls are the figures of
various divinities in the swathed or mummy form,
and the entrance is guarded by a jackal, the emblem
of Anubis, on either side. All are roughly outlined
in red and painted in yellow ; none finished, every-
thing implying haste. Upon the uneven ceiling is
the large figure of a hawk with widespread wings,
which was probably immediately above the sarco-
phagus. Upon the floor amongst the fragments of
limestone, quarry rubbish, which covers the floor of
the tomb from end to end, is the large portion of the
cover of the sarcophagus in red granite, upon which
the figure of the deceased prince is sculptured in
bold relief. The head and feet are missing ; the

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