Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter — John Shaqi
Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard CarterCarnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Earl of
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Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Earl of
Besides the Funerary Statuettes described above, a large number of
figures in Model Sarcophagi[12] were discovered in the four niches in
the wall on the west side of the main court (Pls. I, II, p. 13). These
Model Sarcophagi are of painted pottery, mud, or wood, the boxes are
rectangular or oval in shape, with lids having uprights at each end;
some of them bear inscriptions (Pl. XI). The figures are all of wood
roughly carved to represent human mummies, and some of them are
inscribed (Pl. XII. 2). The inscriptions, written in linear hieroglyphs
or in hieratic, are of five types:--
(1) Giving only the name of the person for whom they were made.
(2) The simple _de hetep seten_ formula to Osiris: e.g. [Illustration:
hieroglyph]
(3) The _de hetep seten_ formula to Osiris, Lord of Busiris and Abydos.
(4) The _de hetep seten_ formula to Osiris with name of dedicator added;
e.g. [Illustration: hieroglyph] ‘(dedicated) by his son who makes to
live his name Teta-an.’
(5) The shawabti text in its early form: [Illustration: hieroglyph] ‘Oh!
this shawabti, if Teta-ky in the underworld is summoned to do work for a
man according to his duties, to cultivate the fields, to flood the banks
(for irrigation purposes), or to carry sand from west to east. Behold I
am there to do it.’
The personal names occurring on these shawabti figures are typical of
the period immediately preceding the XVIIIth Dynasty. I arrange them in
alphabetical order.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Aahmes.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Aahmes-sa-pa-ar.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Aah-hetep.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Antef.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Atef.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Ŷma.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Pa-khnems.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Nekhtu.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Ra-hotep.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Res.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Sena.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Sen-senb.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Senbu.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Tahuti.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Tahutŷ-aah.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Tahutimes.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-an.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-ankh.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-em-ra.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-mesu.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-nefer.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-hemt.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-sa.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-senb.
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Teta-ky.
Table for offerings (Pl. XII. 1) with rectangular depressions pierced
with holes for draining to spout, and inscribed with the _de hetep
seten_ formula to Osiris Khent-amenti, and to Osiris, Lord of Busiris
and of Abydos, that he may give offerings for the _Ka_ of the Royal Son,
Teta-ky. The horizontal line across the lower part of the table for
offerings gives:--
(1) The name and titles of Teta-ky’s father [Illustration: hieroglyph]
and (2) of his mother, the [Illustration: hieroglyph].
A fragment of a statue of Teta-ky bears the following legend:--
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