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)

100 THE OTHER TOMBS. [Chap. III.

the deceased, following a baris drawn by oxen,
where the character of the three ages is admirably
portrayed.

In the inner chamber are an Egyptian house and
garden, the cattle, and a variety of subjects, among
which may be traced the occupations of the weaver,
and of the gardener, drawing water with the pole
and bucket, the shadoof of the present day.

Statues in high relief are seated at the upper end
of this part of the tomb, and on the square pillars
in its centre are the names of Amunoph I. and his
queen Ames-nofri-are.

There are but few other catacombs * worthy of a
visit, unless the traveller makes a protracted stay
at Thebes, and is desirous of collecting every thing
that they present for the study of hieroglyphics
or the customs of the Egyptians; in which case he
Will do well to examine all that are numbered in
my survey, except those behind the hill of Shekh
abd el Qoorneh, which are unsculptured.

Few, indeed, feel inclined to sacrifice their timei
in a research of this kind, and one or two days
frequently suffice to look over the whole of Thebes.

All, it must be allowed, cannot be equally in-

* In the Assaseef the principal tombs are those marked K. P.
Q. R., which I have already mentioned; and on the Drah Aboo
Negga a few sculptures are found in C. D. G. J. L. R. S. T. U.
Y. W. and Y.