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
A large round basket (Pl. LXIV, right-hand side of illustration).
A small round basket (Pl. LXIV, left-hand side of illustration).
The large round basket contained:
A kohl-pot of hard grey stone like aragonite, and a kohl-stick of
ebony (Pl. LXV).
A bronze mirror made of copper, measuring in its maximum length 17
cms. (Pl. LXV): the handle had been coated with a white metal
(silver?) to prevent corrosion.
A scarab made of green jasper and bearing the prenomen and nomen of
Amenhetep I (Pls. LXV, LXXII. 16). It is round-backed and a fine
specimen.
Some decayed locks of hair.
The smaller round basket contained:
A blue glazed steatite scarab of the Hyksos Period (Pls. LXV,
LXXII. 16).
17. _A chair and a stool._ These were broken and tucked between the
foot of coffin No. 18 and the wall (Pl. LXXI). The chair made of
wood has a low square seat of rush-work mesh plaited upon a frame
and supported by four square legs; the legs are strengthened by
cross-bars. The slanting, curved, compound back is dowelled into
the frame of the seat, and it is stayed by uprights which are
continuous from the back legs; it also had (now missing) a central
strut at the back. These uprights and the central strut were fixed
to the back of the chair by means of ivory pegs. The principal
constructive joints of the main body of the chair are strengthened
by angle-pieces of carved bent wood, and these angle-pieces when
exposed to view are ornamented by being composed of several kinds
of wood. The top rail of the back (missing) appears from some of
the remaining ivory pegs to have been made of ivory. It measures 41
× 52 cms. square, the seat 28 cms. high, and the top rail of the
back must have been something like 75 cms. when perfect. The stool
had a similar seat to the chair, and it also has similar
strengthening bars between the legs. It stands 16 cms. in height,
and measures 38 × 35 cms. square.
18. _Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Kingdom._ Ground colour
white; head-dress and bands for hieroglyphs blue. The inscriptions,
written in black, with linear hieroglyphs of the Intermediate
Period style, do not give any name (Pl. LXII. 18).
Contents:--Mummy roughly wrapped. The sex was difficult to
ascertain.
19. _Viscera box._ Small square box painted white and of inferior
quality. The interior, divided into two compartments by a central
partition, contained matter wrapped in linen like the viscera of a
mummy.
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