Reisner, George Andrew: Excavations at Kerma (Dongola-Provinz) (Band 1): Parts I - III (Cambridge, Mass., 1923)

THE TUMULUS K X

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K 1048. Plan XXI, K X (continued).
Burial:
Body A — in middle of grave, chief body; skull, left arm, and right forearm missing;
contracted; on right side, head east.
Body B — sacrificial, behind A, with knees over edge of waist of A; on right side,
head east; hands over face; left leg and right lower leg missing.
Objects: nothing in grave; fragments of hide and potsherds of a large R. W. jar in the
debris.
K 1049. Plan XXI, K X, south, middle, outer row. (Fig. 109.)
Grave: rounded rectangular, 250 X 150 cm., and 140-150 cm. deep; orient., 8° south
of east.
Burial: bed-burial with one sacrificial body and a ram; badly plundered.
Body A — chief body, on bed; half extended, now lying turned slightly over on
stomach, pulled down towards foot of bed; arms and skull removed.



Fig. 109

Body B — sacrificial; pelvis, right lower leg, and left leg in place; lying over front
of bed; contracted; on right side, head east.
Ram — in place, along western end of south wall and partly on bed; on right side,
head east.
Objects: 1-5, in place on floor beside head of bed; 6, on foot of bed; 7, decayed bed.
1. Bkt. I-gen.; Su 851.
+2. Beaker, Bkt. IV-3 (a); Su 852.
3. Beaker, Bkt. 1-4; Su 853.
4. Beaker, Bkt. V-10; Su 854.
5. Beaker, Bkt. V-10; Su 855.
6. Ostrich-feather fan, decayed.
7. Wooden bed, usual form, decayed but cast plainly visible.