The XIth dynasty temple at Deir el-Bahari .. - NYU | Digital Library ...

A piece of an alabaster l)0\vl, some broken
earthenware vases of the same type as those
found in Tombs 1 and 2 (with painted ends),
small offering-saucers, and fragments of earth-
enware bowls were found. These hist show
traces of burning, and charcoal was found in
them and beneath the sarcophagus. They and
the charcoal may possibly be relics of the
makers of the tomb, not cleared out when the
priestess was buried. Such untidiness Avould l)c
quite Egyptian. Tlie cattle bones found in the
shaft have aliva(l\- Ih'cu mentioned.
Xo. G, east of No. 3. An unfinished shaft.
3 ft. deep, Avith nothing in it.
THK TOMBS.
H. H.
No. 7. This is the first uf the series of
six tombs (oi" whicli one was never completed)
which are situated behind lln'rliapels on tlie
Avest of the platform ;
and although they appear
from their position to bear no particular relation
to the chapels, yet it cannot be a mere coin-
cidence that the names of the occupants of three
of the tombs correspond with names found on
the coi'nices of the chapels.
We shall probably not be mistaken if we
consider that the chapels were dedicated to the
occupants of the tombs.
"When we had cleared away the rubbish Avhich
concealed this tomb (No. 7),
it was found that
the original pavement of the temple which
formerly covered the mouth of the pit had been
removed, and the shaft was consequently filled
with broken pieces of stone and paving blocks
from the destruction of the temple.
The plan of the tomb is the same as that of
those on the north side of the platform—
vertical shaft, hcAvn out of the shale to a depth
of 16 ft., at the bottom of which is a chamber on
the east.
The doorway had been somewhat roughly cut
and a slab of limestone had therefore been placed
as a lintel, the broken space above being filled
u]! with bricks ;
these were then plastered, giving
a
the door a neat appearance. A large slab of
limcstoni' had formerly closed the entrance to
the chamber.
No remains of the original sarcophagus were
found, but the Xlth Dynasty mummy, with
its cartonnage, was lying in fragments in the
south-east corner. Here Avas found also the
pair of leather sandals illustrated on PI. x.
fig. 4.
At the northern end of the chamber Avas
found a sipiare Avooden box containing the liver
and other viscera of the deceased packed in a
fine Mack dust.
In the centre, and lying across the chamber,
Avas found a painted Avooden coffin belonging to
the XXth-XXIst Dynasty; on its breast were
luui"- garlands made of plaited rush-leaves
threaded on string. This iMU-ial Avas that of a
Avoman, though the name on the coffin seems to
be the masculine one of Hor-si-aset (r). By the
side of the coffin were numerous fragile stalks
of papyrus and several sticks Avith leaves bound
to the top.
The date of this secondai-y Ijurial is the same
as that of the burial of Userkhara-nekht in
Tomb 4. It is evident that that tomb had been
violated long before the secondary burial, so
that Ave have the period betAveen the XlXth
and XXIst Dynasties as the probable date of
the spoliation of the temple.
No. 8. This tomli Avas, like one of the chapels,^
never finished, the shaft having been sunk to a
depth of .') ft. only; it had then been deserted
and filled up Avith rubbish almost to the top, on
w Inch Avas placed a layer of cement composed of
stone chips and lime ;
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on this again AA'as a layer
of mud and sand„and on this bed the sandstone
pavement Avas laid.
The cutting of this shaft Avas done with greater
care than Avas the case in the other tombs.
Its chief point of interest lies in the fact
' This tomb unci chapel may belong to one another
*icc p. 31).