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THE SIXTEENTH DYNASTY I I 5
tunnels starting from its outer chamber, but so torn up was the sur-
face round about that I could identify no trace of the tomb of King
In-yotef. I then questioned some of the older natives of the neigh-
bourhood. Did any of them remember seeing a pair of “columns”
lying around that part of the hill years ago? None of them did—but
two old men recalled a pair of “little obelisks” which lay right by
Tomb 13 until they were taken away by Maspero a long time back!
So spontaneous and unprompted was this answer that all my doubts
vanished, and I placed “Nub-kheper-Ref In-yotef” where it is on
the Map (Pl. 46).
So far as the description of the tomb in the Abbott Papyrus is con-
cerned we gain nothing. Mariette’s references to the tomb while
vague are a little more enlightening. Ashe describes it, the tomb was
a hemi-speos cut in the abrupt flank of the hill, consisting of a cham-
ber in the rock and a pit terminating in the burial vault. The pyramid
of crude brick was doubtless above on the rock and Mariette either
did not recognize it or it had completely disappeared. In front,
broken into several pieces, lay the two small sandstone obelisks,
3.50 m. and 3.70 m. high respectively, which had ornamented the
facade. Very well preserved inscriptions were arranged in vertical
columns down the four sides giving the names of “The Horus Nefer-
khepru, Lord of the Two Diadems Heru-hir-neset-ef, Beautiful God,
Lord of the Two Lands, Lord of Offerings, Nub-kheper-Ref, Bodily
Son of Ref, In-yotef who is beloved of the gods Osiris, Sopd Lord
of the (Eastern) Mountains, and Anubis Lord of the Land of Djes-
eret.” On one side there were a few signs from the beginning of a
restoration made by a later king.
The obelisks were left on the spot where they were found in i860,
and were partially cleared a second time by Villiers Stuart in 1879,
as we have seen. Two years later they were shipped to the Bulak
Museum and were lost in the Nile opposite Gamuleh on the way
down river. They have received frequent mention of varying value.
Villiers Stuart gave a bad wood-cut from a worse drawing, which
would be interesting if we could be certain that it was of the obelisk
not figured by Mariette, and after that they have been frequently
mentioned.
Mariette’s discovery of i860 would appear to have been antici-
pated by the Arabs of Kurneh in 1827, when they seem to have
found the tomb intact as it was left by the inspectors in the reign of
Ramesses IX. Arab plundering on the slopes of the Diraf Abu’n-
tunnels starting from its outer chamber, but so torn up was the sur-
face round about that I could identify no trace of the tomb of King
In-yotef. I then questioned some of the older natives of the neigh-
bourhood. Did any of them remember seeing a pair of “columns”
lying around that part of the hill years ago? None of them did—but
two old men recalled a pair of “little obelisks” which lay right by
Tomb 13 until they were taken away by Maspero a long time back!
So spontaneous and unprompted was this answer that all my doubts
vanished, and I placed “Nub-kheper-Ref In-yotef” where it is on
the Map (Pl. 46).
So far as the description of the tomb in the Abbott Papyrus is con-
cerned we gain nothing. Mariette’s references to the tomb while
vague are a little more enlightening. Ashe describes it, the tomb was
a hemi-speos cut in the abrupt flank of the hill, consisting of a cham-
ber in the rock and a pit terminating in the burial vault. The pyramid
of crude brick was doubtless above on the rock and Mariette either
did not recognize it or it had completely disappeared. In front,
broken into several pieces, lay the two small sandstone obelisks,
3.50 m. and 3.70 m. high respectively, which had ornamented the
facade. Very well preserved inscriptions were arranged in vertical
columns down the four sides giving the names of “The Horus Nefer-
khepru, Lord of the Two Diadems Heru-hir-neset-ef, Beautiful God,
Lord of the Two Lands, Lord of Offerings, Nub-kheper-Ref, Bodily
Son of Ref, In-yotef who is beloved of the gods Osiris, Sopd Lord
of the (Eastern) Mountains, and Anubis Lord of the Land of Djes-
eret.” On one side there were a few signs from the beginning of a
restoration made by a later king.
The obelisks were left on the spot where they were found in i860,
and were partially cleared a second time by Villiers Stuart in 1879,
as we have seen. Two years later they were shipped to the Bulak
Museum and were lost in the Nile opposite Gamuleh on the way
down river. They have received frequent mention of varying value.
Villiers Stuart gave a bad wood-cut from a worse drawing, which
would be interesting if we could be certain that it was of the obelisk
not figured by Mariette, and after that they have been frequently
mentioned.
Mariette’s discovery of i860 would appear to have been antici-
pated by the Arabs of Kurneh in 1827, when they seem to have
found the tomb intact as it was left by the inspectors in the reign of
Ramesses IX. Arab plundering on the slopes of the Diraf Abu’n-