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
Contents:--Four mummies covered with a large shroud. At the head
end of the coffin, and resting on the mummies, there were: (1) a
black pottery vase; (2) a red pottery biangular bowl; (3) a wooden
head-rest; (4) a basket containing four dôm nuts, and a vase which
had in it a piece of crystal, and a round-backed green glazed
steatite scarab (Pl. LXVIII. 59 and Pl. LXXII. 59).
The four mummies, packed head to feet, were as follows:--
(_a_) Mummy of a woman with a scarab necklace (Pl. LXXII. 59 A); a
bead necklace (Pl. LXXIII. 59); and some bead-bangles of bone and
cornelian (for examples see No. 78, Pl. LXXIII). One of the scarabs
upon the necklace bears the nomen of Thothmes I.
(_b_) Mummy of a child.
(_c_) Mummy of a man wrapped in very coarse linen.
(_d_) Mummy of an adult (sex difficult to ascertain).
With the mummy there was a walking-staff; in the abdomen were some
dôm nuts, and a group of scarabs (Pl. LXXII. 59 D), which appear,
from the string that some were still threaded upon, to have once
formed a necklace. In the wrappings near the neck of the mummy were
some faience and bone beads. One of the scarabs bore upon its bezel
[Illustration: hieroglyph] Neb-ded-Ra, encircled by a coil pattern
(cp. Scarab, B.M., No. 37730); another had the prenomen of Thothmes
II, above a crouching jackal; and a third one has the _Hor-nub_
name of Thothmes I.
_Chamber (E)._
60. _Rîshi coffin._ Similar to No. 11, but of very rough
workmanship.
Contents:--Mummy of a woman scantily wrapped in coarse linen.
61. _Rectangular child’s coffin._ Similar to No. 80.
Contents:--Mummy of an infant.
62. _Plain rectangular gable-topped coffin._ The outer surface of
this coffin is covered with a thin paint of pinky hue. The lid is
slanting on either side, has a longitudinal beam in the centre, and
an upright head and foot piece on its ends (Pl. LX. 62).
Contents:--Three mummies: two were of adults lying side by side,
the third of a child placed at their feet. The child’s mummy had
upon its neck an amuletic necklace composed of round and barrel
faience beads of red and green colour with pendant amulets of the
same material, and in the centre a brown stone turtle; on the arms
were bead-bangles composed of bone and faience beads; and lying
near the hands, tied upon a piece of string, were two scarabs and a
cowroid seal (Pl. LXXII. 62 A). One of the adult mummies had round
its neck a cornelian bead necklace (Pl. LXXIII. 62); and upon the
third finger of the left hand a green glazed steatite scarab (Pl.
LXXII. 62 B).
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