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
As far as the work of this season allowed, eleven of these substructures
were revealed, giving enough proof that a late building of some kind, in
part or complete, had existed there. The fact that lime-mortar still
exists within the circles that marked the bases of the columns, proves
that at least the lower part of the column drums once stood there. The
builder of this double colonnade, running east and west, was proved to
be Rameses IV by our finding under the north-east corner a deposit
bearing his names. This deposit, placed in the sand and enclosed by a
few bricks and not a metre and a half below the masonry, consisted of
143 electrum and faience objects excluding the barley grains, samples of
red jasper, and matrices of emerald that were mixed with them.
Pl. XL illustrates a complete series of the different articles that
formed the deposit:
Group 1. Plaques, made of electrum.
“ 2. Cartouches, of blue and violet glass.
“ 3. Plaques, of blue glazed faience.
“ 4. Cartouches, of blue glazed faience.
“ 5. Various objects, also of blue glazed faience.
“ 6. Samples of blue and violet glass rods,
red jasper, and matrices of emerald.
The variants of the names of Rameses IV that occur among these objects
are:
[Illustration: hieroglyphs]
CHAPTER XI
OTHER ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED
BY HOWARD CARTER
In the removal of the lower strata of Site 14 the mass of sand,
amounting to many thousands of cubic metres, contained but few things to
which any great importance could be attached. In fact, days were passed
while extricating the masonry of the ‘Valley’-Temple without hardly a
single object coming to light. Among the few things discovered the most
important were:--
1. A genealogical stela in limestone, measuring 44 x 29 cms., coloured,
and of the ‘Household of the mother of the _Mer Shen_ of Amen,
Zed-Amen-auf-ankh’ (Pl. XLI). It mentions the following personages:--
The Lady Nes-ta-nebt-Asheru.
The Priest of Amen in Karnak, Hor.
His mother, the Lady Nes-ta-nebt-Asheru.
The Priest of Amen-Ra, Hor, son of the Priest Pedemut.
Her mother Ta-bak-en-ta-Ashat-qa.
The Governor of Thebes Hor-se-Ast, son of Zed-Aah.
The Chief Royal Scribe Bak-en-Khonsu, son of the Mayor of Thebes Auf-aa-hor.
His mother, the Lady Mes-per, daughter of the Priest of Amen-Ra Hor, son
of Zed-Amen-uah-es.
The Chief Royal Scribe Hor, son of Zed-Amen-uah-es.
The mother of the Lady Nes-ta-nebt-Asheru, Nes-Khonsu-pa-khred.
The Priest of Amen-Ra Nekht-ef-mut.
Her mother, the Lady Ta-aa, daughter of the Priest of Amen Hor-kheb, son
of Ahat.[22]
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