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
43. _Rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 80.
Contents:--Skeleton of a very young child. In the shell of the
coffin there were a few miniature blue faience beads.
44. _Rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 80. The lid was
tied on with rope.
Contents:--Skeleton of a child.
45. _Rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 80.
Contents:--Mummy of a child.
46. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75.
Contents:--Mummy of a man.
47. _Plain anthropoid coffin._ Similar to No. 29. The lid was tied
on with rope.
Contents:--Mummy of a woman, in bad condition and much decayed. In
the débris there were some bone bead-bangles (for example see Pl.
LXXIII. 53); a blue glazed steatite scarab of the Hyksos period; a
turquoise blue glass cowroid bead; and a blue faience scaraboid
bead (Pl. LXXII. 47).
48. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75.
Contents:--Mummy of a man.
49. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75.
Contents:--Two mummies; one of a man, the other of a woman, lying
head to feet. Among these remains were some bone and cornelian
bead-bangles (for example see Pl. LXXIII. 78).
50. _Rectangular open-grid bottomed coffin._ Similar to No. 52.
Contents:--Mummy of a half-grown child. The mummy was enveloped in
reeds. Upon it were bone and cornelian bead-bangles (see Pl.
LXXIII. 78); a group of tubular barrel-shaped beads, coated with
chips of glass and disk-shaped faience beads; also an amuletic
necklace (Pl. LXXIII. 50). The beads of this amuletic necklace were
made of cornelian, faience, and blue opaque glass; the amulets were
flies, hawks, and symbolical knots, made of glazed and unglazed
steatite, jasper, and faience, and the central pendant of gold. The
original position of these objects upon the mummy it was impossible
to ascertain.
51. _Rectangular dug-out child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 41.
Contents:--Mummy of a child. In the coffin, underneath the mummy,
was a wooden throw-stick and a gold earring; the second gold
earring was afterwards found at the bottom of the pit. The
throw-stick, 42 cms. in length, is finely carved out of very hard
wood, and it has a propeller-like twist.
52. _Rectangular open-grid bottomed coffin._ A plain wood
rectangular coffin, with wooden bars at intervals in place of the
boarded bottom (Pl. LX. 52).
Contents:--Mummy of a woman, bent, as it was too large for the
coffin. On the third finger of the left hand, attached by string,
were two jasper scarabs (Pl. LXXII. 52). One of the scarabs had a
fish and lotus-flower engraved upon its bezel.
53. _Plain rectangular gable-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 62, but
has no traces of paint.
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