Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

Chap. II.] TOMBS IN THE WESTEKN VALLEY. 123-

and it certainly is singular that none have been yet
met with of the first kings of the eighteenth dynasty.

W. 2 is two hundred and five feet in length, in-
cluding the entrance, and contains a broken sarco-
phagus and some bad fresco painting of peculiarly
short and graceless proportions. Of the sera of the
king whose name here occurs, I have only been
able to ascertain that he was prior to Remeses II.,
and probably by several ages.

The others are not worthy of notice.