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
29. _Plain anthropoid coffin._ The outer surface of this coffin is
painted white, with the features of the face roughly delineated in
black (Pl. LXI. 29).
Contents:--Mummy of a girl.
30. _Rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 80.
Contents:--Skeleton of a baby.
31. _Dug-out rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 41.
Contents:--Mummy of a child. In the wrappings covering the hair
were some bone and cornelian beads like those found in coffin No.
78 given in Pl. LXXII. 78. Resting on the feet of the mummy was a
basket turned over and its contents spilt. The contents were
several necklaces of many kinds of blue faience beads, of which
examples are given in Pl. LXXIII. 31. With them was a small blue
faience kohl-pot of usual type. One of the cowroid beads bore the
prenomen of Thothmes I, while others had hieroglyphic signs on
them, including one which had [Illustration: hieroglyph] upon its
base.
32. _A bunch of papyrus reeds._
33. _A small obsidian unguent vase._ This was found resting upon
the chest of coffin No. 23.
34. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75
(broken).
Contents:--Mummy broken to fragments.
35. _Decorated rectangular coffin._ Smashed to pieces by the
falling of the rock ceiling of the chamber. There were no traces of
objects.
36. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75.
Contents:--Among the decayed remains of a mummy was a round-backed
green glazed steatite scarab, bearing a very fine example of spiral
pattern engraved upon its bezel (Pl. LXXII. 36).
37. _Rectangular dug-out coffin._ Similar to No. 58 (lid missing).
Contents:--Mummy of a woman. In the débris of the mummy, on the
bottom of the coffin, was a round-backed green glazed steatite
scarab (Pl. LXXII. 37).
38. _Plain anthropoid coffin._ Similar to No. 29.
Contents:--Mummy of a man. Lying on the bottom of the coffin was a
blue faience scaraboid bead (Pl. LXXII. 38).
39. _Parts of a frame of a wooden stool._ Similar to No. 13.
40. _Anthropoid dug-out child’s coffin._ Painted white and very
roughly made.
Contents:--Child’s skeleton.
_Pit (D)._
41. _Rectangular dug-out child’s coffin._ The shell was cut out of
one block of wood, and for the lid a flat board was used. Wooden
pegs at either end of the lid show that it once had head and foot
pieces (P. LXI. 41).
Contents:--Mummy of a child.
42. _Rectangular dug-out child’s coffin._ This was of peculiar
type. The block of wood from which it was made was cut in half
diagonally, so that the lid and shell were of equal proportions.
Some auxiliary pieces of wood had been let into the lid to
strengthen it (Pl. LXI. 42).
Contents:--Skeleton of a baby.
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