On the following day operations were begun by clearing the bottom steps of the shaft and searching the coffin. Under the latter, nine more ivory pins, fragments of alabaster, cosmetic vases, the broken parts of an ebony and cedar-wood toilet-box inlaid with ivory, and fragments of an ornamented ivory gaming-board were discovered, twisted and shattered into a hundred pieces. The coffin, too far gone for us to hope to preserve it (ants having eaten the whole of the wood, leaving only the bitumen coating perforated and like an eggshell), had had bands of yellow hieroglyphs along its sides and ends; but only here and there could a few signs be discerned. Still, enough could be made out to trace the title [Illustration: hieroglyph] and name [Illustration: hieroglyph] ‘Great one of the southern tens, Rensenb’ (which was afterwards corroborated by the inscription on the mirror handle found on the mummy), and certain of the hieroglyphs were of the ‘mutilated’ type (i.e. [Illustration: hieroglyph] for [Illustration: hieroglyph], and [Illustration: hieroglyph] for [Illustration: hieroglyph]) often found in texts of the late XIIth Dynasty and Intermediate Period.[26] The mummy, lying on its side, was reduced to a black powder through spontaneous combustion, caused by the damp that had filtered through from above. It had a cartonnage mask covering the head and shoulders, with gilt face, the head-dress painted yellow and striated with grey-green bands which had oval spots in black (illustrating the use of the violet ornaments found in tomb No. 24). Embedded in the wrappings, at the small of the back, was a blue faience hippopotamus (Pl. LI. 1). Round the neck a gold and obsidian necklace and a ‘_Shen_’ brooch of gold and cornelian (Pl. LI. 2). On the breast, concealed in the linen wrappings, was a bronze mirror with ebony handle mounted and inlaid with gold. The inscription upon it reads [Illustration: hieroglyph] ‘Great one of the southern tens, Rensenb, repeating life’ (Pl. LI. 2). How it came about that these chambers should be ravaged, this burial dragged into the daylight of the open shaft, and yet unrifled, is a mystery yet to be solved. _In the Southern Chamber._ At the entrance were the front part and pieces of the drawer of the toilet-box (Pl. XLVIII. 1), three alabaster vase lids, an alabaster vase, and a gold bead. Besides these articles this chamber had planks from wooden canopies and coffins, and the remains of three mummies (one a child) charred to soot. In the depression in the floor and lower chamber were found two broken ivory crocodiles, two splinters of a mystic wand, and the body of a stripped mummy; under the latter, in the dust, were beads of a necklace.