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HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
In the floor of the chamber, towards the southern side, was a shallow pit, 270 X 90 cm.,
and 75 cm. deep below the plastered floor. The form of this pit indicates a box-burial, of
which type there was positive evidence in K 1035 and K 1050. The pit was large enough
to hold a coffin of some size — perhaps 200 X 80 X 70 (high) cm. — and leave room for a
canopic chest and other objects. But a number of points remain confused, chiefly whether
the coffin was covered with earth and with the plastered floor of the room, or had been left
visible.
(2) The contents of k x a
The main burial chamber, K X A, had been penetrated several times by plunderers,
who had (i) broken away the wooden door, (ii) dug a hole through the roof, and (iii) taken
out the southern door-jamb and the southern half of the lintel. I conclude that each of
these acts took place at a different time. The removal of the stones may have been rela-
Fig. 91
tively recent. As a result of this repeated plundering, the room had been completely
cleared out, so that not a single object was left in place. The room was filled with sand
mixed in the lower meter with a large amount of decayed mud-brick, but above mainly
with wind-blown sand. Large areas in the corridor, especially around the room, were covered
to a depth of 50-80 cm. with layered drift sand.
Thus the conditions were the same as at K III and K IV and the objects belonging to
the main burial can only be deduced on the same principles as were applied at the other
tumuli.
(a) Statuettes:
A large number of fragments of statuettes were found and these were most frequent in
two places — the part of the corridor which lies between the chamber A and a line ten
meters south of it, and in the surface debris near the subsidiary graves K 1026 and K 1043.
The statue of Sesheshra-khuwtauwy was in the corridor near the floor, and most of the
pieces of the private statuettes were also there together with the fragments of inscribed
alabaster and diorite.
HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
In the floor of the chamber, towards the southern side, was a shallow pit, 270 X 90 cm.,
and 75 cm. deep below the plastered floor. The form of this pit indicates a box-burial, of
which type there was positive evidence in K 1035 and K 1050. The pit was large enough
to hold a coffin of some size — perhaps 200 X 80 X 70 (high) cm. — and leave room for a
canopic chest and other objects. But a number of points remain confused, chiefly whether
the coffin was covered with earth and with the plastered floor of the room, or had been left
visible.
(2) The contents of k x a
The main burial chamber, K X A, had been penetrated several times by plunderers,
who had (i) broken away the wooden door, (ii) dug a hole through the roof, and (iii) taken
out the southern door-jamb and the southern half of the lintel. I conclude that each of
these acts took place at a different time. The removal of the stones may have been rela-
Fig. 91
tively recent. As a result of this repeated plundering, the room had been completely
cleared out, so that not a single object was left in place. The room was filled with sand
mixed in the lower meter with a large amount of decayed mud-brick, but above mainly
with wind-blown sand. Large areas in the corridor, especially around the room, were covered
to a depth of 50-80 cm. with layered drift sand.
Thus the conditions were the same as at K III and K IV and the objects belonging to
the main burial can only be deduced on the same principles as were applied at the other
tumuli.
(a) Statuettes:
A large number of fragments of statuettes were found and these were most frequent in
two places — the part of the corridor which lies between the chamber A and a line ten
meters south of it, and in the surface debris near the subsidiary graves K 1026 and K 1043.
The statue of Sesheshra-khuwtauwy was in the corridor near the floor, and most of the
pieces of the private statuettes were also there together with the fragments of inscribed
alabaster and diorite.