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HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
(6) Faience:
A number of fragments of faience jars and bowls were found, not so many as at K XVI,
yet representing at least twenty vessels. Some of these could be fitted together, but none
could be joined to fragments from other tumuli. All the pieces are grouped in the following
list.
xii. See Chapter XXV, Faience, Vessels:
No.
Type
No.
Type
No.
Type
20
1-4
72
VI-gen.
113
XIII
28
1-5
73
Vl-gen.
137
XVI-gen.
36
1-6
100
IX-gen.
143
XVII-1
37
1-6
102
X
168
XVII-6
43
HI-2
107
XII
169
XVII-6
50
V-2
112
XIII
171
XVII-7
61b
VI-3
And the miscellaneous fragments — 14-1-927, 1143, 1149.
xiii. Faience bracelet, round section, diam., 15 mm.; diam. of bracelet, 8.2 cm.; 14-1-1151.
It is further to be noted that no bed-inlays were found, and indeed no trace of bed-
inlays was found in any of the graves which appear to be contemporary with K XVIII or
later. Some of the finer pottery, given under K XVIII B, should no doubt be assigned
to A.
(2) Room k xviii b, sacrificial chamber
Pl. 29, 2; Fig. 154
In the western room, K XVIII B, a number of more or less disturbed skeletons and
heaps of bones mixed with pottery and small objects of little intrinsic value, lay on the
floor. Forty-two bodies could be distinguished. The debris just above them had been
turned over as in K XVI C and the upper part of the debris was largely drift sand.
At the southern end of the room, there was a trench in the floor, extending the width of
the room (495 cm.), 140 cm. wide, and sunk 20 cm. below the floor. This depression was
obviously made to take a more important burial (or burials), no doubt on a bed (or beds).
Its depth was such as to bring the top of the middle part of an ordinary Kerma bed about
on a level with the rest of the floor. The size is sufficient for four beds close together, but
I imagine there was only one. In any case, this depression would appear to have been the
place of burial of the principal sacrifice (or sacrifices) in the chamber. This conclusion is
strengthened by the objects found in a small hole just outside the room, probably made by
the plunderers, and by certain objects of better quality found in the debris (see below, i-v).
Perhaps in this room the chief wife and the minor females were buried.
(a) Description of bodies and objects in K XVIII B:
Body A. Vertebrae and one leg, lying disjointed on debris at west end of bed-depression
together with the following objects:
1. Four beakers, Bkt. VIII-8; 14-1-832.
56. Beaker, Bkt. VII-2 (a); 14-1-887.
57. Whetstone, ferricrete sandstone; triangular; 1., 9.9 cm.; width of top,
3.9 cm.; thickness, 1 cm.; pierced at upper left corner; 14-1-888.
HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
(6) Faience:
A number of fragments of faience jars and bowls were found, not so many as at K XVI,
yet representing at least twenty vessels. Some of these could be fitted together, but none
could be joined to fragments from other tumuli. All the pieces are grouped in the following
list.
xii. See Chapter XXV, Faience, Vessels:
No.
Type
No.
Type
No.
Type
20
1-4
72
VI-gen.
113
XIII
28
1-5
73
Vl-gen.
137
XVI-gen.
36
1-6
100
IX-gen.
143
XVII-1
37
1-6
102
X
168
XVII-6
43
HI-2
107
XII
169
XVII-6
50
V-2
112
XIII
171
XVII-7
61b
VI-3
And the miscellaneous fragments — 14-1-927, 1143, 1149.
xiii. Faience bracelet, round section, diam., 15 mm.; diam. of bracelet, 8.2 cm.; 14-1-1151.
It is further to be noted that no bed-inlays were found, and indeed no trace of bed-
inlays was found in any of the graves which appear to be contemporary with K XVIII or
later. Some of the finer pottery, given under K XVIII B, should no doubt be assigned
to A.
(2) Room k xviii b, sacrificial chamber
Pl. 29, 2; Fig. 154
In the western room, K XVIII B, a number of more or less disturbed skeletons and
heaps of bones mixed with pottery and small objects of little intrinsic value, lay on the
floor. Forty-two bodies could be distinguished. The debris just above them had been
turned over as in K XVI C and the upper part of the debris was largely drift sand.
At the southern end of the room, there was a trench in the floor, extending the width of
the room (495 cm.), 140 cm. wide, and sunk 20 cm. below the floor. This depression was
obviously made to take a more important burial (or burials), no doubt on a bed (or beds).
Its depth was such as to bring the top of the middle part of an ordinary Kerma bed about
on a level with the rest of the floor. The size is sufficient for four beds close together, but
I imagine there was only one. In any case, this depression would appear to have been the
place of burial of the principal sacrifice (or sacrifices) in the chamber. This conclusion is
strengthened by the objects found in a small hole just outside the room, probably made by
the plunderers, and by certain objects of better quality found in the debris (see below, i-v).
Perhaps in this room the chief wife and the minor females were buried.
(a) Description of bodies and objects in K XVIII B:
Body A. Vertebrae and one leg, lying disjointed on debris at west end of bed-depression
together with the following objects:
1. Four beakers, Bkt. VIII-8; 14-1-832.
56. Beaker, Bkt. VII-2 (a); 14-1-887.
57. Whetstone, ferricrete sandstone; triangular; 1., 9.9 cm.; width of top,
3.9 cm.; thickness, 1 cm.; pierced at upper left corner; 14-1-888.