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46 THE Xlni DYNASTY TEMPLE AT J)EIR KL-BAllARI.
white, dark 1)1ik', light lilue, and again white
lieads. The first has l)een assigned to America,
the second to the British Museum.
Loose in the rubbish ^^'ere found a licavy
stone chisel, measuring 10 in. long, and a wooden
lever, 2 ft. G ins. long, which had no douljt l)een
used l)y tlie original plunderers to prize off the
lid of the sarcophagus. Both these interesting
implements are in the British Museum.
Xo. 5. (Plan and Section, PI. xi.) Of the
same type. Length of shaft, 10 ft. 5 in. ;
width, 5 ft. 2 in. ; least depth, lo ft., greatest,
15 ft. 6 in. The entrance to the chamber, 5 ft.
in height, is closed, not by a l)rick wall, l)ut by
two tall slaljs of sandstone set up endways. The
larger of these measures 5 ft. 7 in. high l)y 2 ft.
10 in. broad ; the smaller 4 ft. 10 in. high l)y 1 ft.
l)road. This stands on a small Ijlock, 1 It !) in.
long l)y 6 in. high. The space between the stones
and walls was filled up with fragments of bricks
and mortar. Height of step down into chaml)er,
1 ft. 11 in., length of chamber, 11 ft.; width,
6 ft. 2i- in., height, 7 ft. 3 in. in centre ; the
roof is slightly rounded ; the floor irregular in
level. Violated.
In the shaft, remains of two secondary liurials
of the XXIst Dynasty were found close to the
surface ; the coffins are badly damaged, and
the names of the occupants illegil)le. Some
feet below were found a head and three forelegs
of cattle. Similar l»ones of cattle were found in
the chamber itself. The hooves are long and un-
worn, showing that the animals had never been
used for work, so that they were prol^ably
sacred. The horns are of the long curved type
Avhicli is that of the horns of the Hathor-co^v.
It may well lie that these are remains of sacred
cows of the goddess of Deir el-Bahari.
As in No. 4, a large rectangular white lime-
stone sarcophagus stood amid the rubbish in
the chamlier. It also is uninscribed, and exactly
like the other l)ut for the fact that it has no
ledire to hold the lid. It is
3 ft, 5.V in. In-oad and 3 ft. 11.
) ft. 4 in. Ions;
in. high without
;
the lid, which is S in. thick. Part of this, -) ft.
long, remains in position. The inside depth of
the sarcophagus is o ft. The end nearest the
entrance was broken off by the plunderers.
The skeleton of the occupant, a female, was
found in it. The head retains the hair. The
hands are rigidly clenched. It is evident that
the deceased was quite young. Of her partire,
only two fine lentoid beads of carnelian, fi'om
a necklace, were extant (PI. x. 3 ;
'' Objects
from Tombs," &c.). Remains of four models, a
boat, a granary, a bakery, and a group of soldiers,
wei'e found. Of this last model, which must
have been like the famous military models from
Meir in the Cairo Museum, two figures of black
soldiers with shield and spear, and several loose
shields were recovered. The shields represent
the usual wooden shields of the period, covered
with Idack-and-white o.xhidc.
Two important objects from this tomb, Avhich
have lieeu lirought back and are now in the
British Museum and the Edinburgh Museum
respectively, are tall figures of female slaves,
carrying baskets on their heads (PI. ix., figs. 4, (i).
They are nearly 3 ft. high, and are well modelled
and painted. The basket of the one at Edinburgh
was missing. The plunderers had no use for these
things ; they merely threw them on one side or
smashed them if they were in the way. What
they wanted was the gold and precious stones
on the mummies, and these they took, leaving
in this case only two carnelian beads. In Tomb
No. 2, as we have seen, silver was beneath their
notice. Two fragments of what had been a fine
object have been assigned to the British Museum.
This was a vase-stand of alabaster, carved in
open-work to represent opposed figures of the
vulture of the goddess Mut or Nekheliet (and
possibly the hawk of Horus) with aiikh signs
(and probably tat signs also) between the groups,
in a style characteristic of the Middle Kingdom.
The two fragments found (PI. x., fig. 5) show a
vulture-group and an (hil-h (^
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