24. _Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Empire._ This coffin was similar to No. 23, but not so fine. The eyes were only painted, and the decoration varied by having the goddess _Nut_ alone below the collar, the absence of the two jackals on the sides of the ankles, and _Nephthys_ on the head. The legends, between the bands of formulae, referring to the gods had been added in black ink after the completion of the coffin. It bore the name [Illustration: hieroglyph] Aah-hetep, who was called [Illustration: hieroglyph] Ta-nezem (see viscera box No. 20). Contents:--Mummy of a woman carefully wrapped, with the right arm across the breast, and the left arm resting at the side. She was covered with a sheet which when removed exposed two statuettes lying on either side of the knees of the mummy (Pl. LXVII. 2), and upon the shins a round shallow basket (Pl. LXIV. 24) containing a heart scarab made of unburnt steatite bearing an enigmatical inscription (Pl. LXXII. 24). On the left hand, tied with string to the third finger, were two scarabs: one, high-backed and of blue glazed steatite, bore the name of the ‘Herald Ren-senb’; the other, high-backed and of blue paste, had a winged _kheper_ surmounted by _Ra_ engraved upon its base (Pl. LXXII. 24). Underneath the mummy was a very small basket containing three copper forceps and a kohl-stick. The statuette found on the right side may be described as follows: Small portrait figure of a boy named [Illustration: hieroglyph] Amenemheb, nude, and of electrum; dedicated by his father Tahuti[52] ‘who makes to live his name’. It measures 13 cms. high, and stands upon a wooden pedestal which is inscribed. The work is that of a very good artist, showing great instinctive feeling and subtle modelling as well as delicacy. Though the actual finish of the detail is not carried to a very high pitch, this fact does not lessen its beauty, and a glance at the photographs (Pl. LXVII. 1 and frontispiece) will at once show its charm and high art sense. In the left hand is a lotus-bud with long and flowing stalk. The metal was cast and the figure worked upon after it was chilled. The statuette at first may seem attenuated, but any one who knows the youth of modern Egypt will at once recognize its truth.