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:--Mummy of a woman covered with a mat with long pile. On
her right side, a wooden cylinder covered with leather and
containing six musical reeds. These reeds were (1) 36·5 cms. long,
with four notes; (2) 36·5 cms. long, with three notes; (3) 30·5
cms. long, with two notes; (4) 28 cms. long, with four notes on one
side (three were intentionally blocked up with resinous material),
and on the other side there was a hole or note; (5) 25 cms. long,
with five notes (a crack mended with resinous material); (6) 23·5
cms. long, with five notes. The reeds average 12 mms. in thickness.
Under the woman’s legs was a basket containing two flints, two
lumps of clay, a reed kohl-pot and two wooden kohl-sticks, a piece
of a wooden comb,[55] a splinter of wood, some bone and faience
bead-bangles, and a small plaited lock of hair. In the womb were
traces of an embryonic skeleton (Pl. LXIX. 71).
72. _Viscera box._ Similar to No. 20, with rounded lid (Pl. LXI.
72). No inscriptions.
Contents like Nos. 19 and 20.
73. _Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Empire._ Similar in
fashion to No. 23, but rougher in detail and finish (Pls. LVIII.
and LXII. 73). The lid was fixed in place by wooden pegs, and it
bore the name [Illustration: hieroglyph] Aahmes.
Contents:--Mummy of a woman covered with a shroud. On the right
side of the head was a broken kohl-pot; and at the top of the head,
rolled in linen, a chignon, a pottery vase containing a kind of
pomade which bore prints of the ancient fingers, and an ebony comb
and bone hair-pin (Pl. LXX. 73). The mummy was sewn up in a sheet,
which, when removed, exposed transverse bindings which continued
down to the bitumenized body. The arms were crossed over the
abdomen. On the head, over the natural hair, a plaited wig much
decayed.
74. _Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Empire._ This coffin
(Pl. LVIII. 74) is fully illustrated by Plate LXIII, Figs. 1, 2. It
bears the name of [Illustration: hieroglyph] Mentu-hetep, and,
among the religious formulae written upon it, gives the variant
[Illustration: hieroglyph] for _Horus_.
Contents:--Mummy of a man covered with a shroud. Under the shroud,
and resting upon the mummy, was a long (164 cms.) bronze snake
sceptre; and on the third finger of the left hand a round-backed
green glazed steatite scarab (Pl. LXXII. 74) tied with string.
75. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Lid and shell made of
planks of wood, with upright head and foot pieces upon the ends of
lid (Pls. LVIII., LX. 75).
Contents:--Mummy of a woman with plaited hair. Round the waist was
a girdle composed of two twisted strings of bone beads.
76. _Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin._ Similar to No. 75.
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