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CONTENTS AND APPEARANCE OF OUTER CHAMBER. 91
and while it may be regarded as a direct memorial of
the first or an early owner of the sepulchre, it likewise,
from being mutilated, was another evidence of the
changes which had taken place — evidence which subse-
quently became more clear when farther research de-
monstrated that there had been a double appropriation
of the tomb. There were also, one on either side of the
statue, two tall cylindrical jars (amphora;) with conical
pointed bottoms, and handles attached where the con-
traction for the lip rises from the narrowing bulge.
Finally, the> innermost corner to the right was occupied
by a large coarse clay platter, half filled with dry
mortar, the rest of which had probably been used to
complete those arrangements, whose appearance gave
rise to such sanguine expectations.
The assuring features were the entrances, carefully
built up and intact, of two passages diverging from the
chamber, one at the inner end, the other about midway
along the left-hand side. Nor were these the only or
3. Consecrated to Mut, the great mother, mistress of Askeru, who
gave food to the Osiris Ur en ma tai [chief of mercenaries].
4. Consecrated to Khunsu in Garni, Neferhetp, who gave water and
incense to the Osiris Ur en ma tai [chief of mercenaries].
5. Consecrated to Osiris Un nefer, -who gave food and air to the
Osiris Ur en [chief of mercenaries].
G. Consecrated to Isis, the mother goddess, who gave incense and
libations daily to the Osiris Ur en m. . . . [chief of mercenaries].
The mutilation of the lower part of the statue leaves some doubt
as to the fact of the name or title being expressed by Ur en m. . . .
The group is perhaps as old as the Eighteenth Dynasty, but the style
of hair rather resembles that of the Nineteenth. It was dedicated to
the Theban and Abydene Triads.
and while it may be regarded as a direct memorial of
the first or an early owner of the sepulchre, it likewise,
from being mutilated, was another evidence of the
changes which had taken place — evidence which subse-
quently became more clear when farther research de-
monstrated that there had been a double appropriation
of the tomb. There were also, one on either side of the
statue, two tall cylindrical jars (amphora;) with conical
pointed bottoms, and handles attached where the con-
traction for the lip rises from the narrowing bulge.
Finally, the> innermost corner to the right was occupied
by a large coarse clay platter, half filled with dry
mortar, the rest of which had probably been used to
complete those arrangements, whose appearance gave
rise to such sanguine expectations.
The assuring features were the entrances, carefully
built up and intact, of two passages diverging from the
chamber, one at the inner end, the other about midway
along the left-hand side. Nor were these the only or
3. Consecrated to Mut, the great mother, mistress of Askeru, who
gave food to the Osiris Ur en ma tai [chief of mercenaries].
4. Consecrated to Khunsu in Garni, Neferhetp, who gave water and
incense to the Osiris Ur en ma tai [chief of mercenaries].
5. Consecrated to Osiris Un nefer, -who gave food and air to the
Osiris Ur en [chief of mercenaries].
G. Consecrated to Isis, the mother goddess, who gave incense and
libations daily to the Osiris Ur en m. . . . [chief of mercenaries].
The mutilation of the lower part of the statue leaves some doubt
as to the fact of the name or title being expressed by Ur en m. . . .
The group is perhaps as old as the Eighteenth Dynasty, but the style
of hair rather resembles that of the Nineteenth. It was dedicated to
the Theban and Abydene Triads.