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:--A _ka-hetep_ amulet and necklace of blue faience (Pl.
LXXIII. 87); a necklace of white and violet cylindrical faience
beads (Pl. LXXIII. 87); a blue glazed steatite scarab (Pl. LXXII.
87); a blue glazed steatite kohl-pot, made to imitate matrix of
turquoise; a reel of white faience; and a copper fillet for the
hair (see tomb No. 25, p. 55). These objects are all of the Middle
Kingdom period, and were discovered in the layer of rubbish
covering the floor of the chamber. They probably belonged to the
original interment.
_Pit (D)._
88. _Panel stela._ Covered with white stucco and painted. It
measures 45 × 27 cms. (see Chapter XIII, by Dr. Möller).
89. _Panel stela._ Similar to No. 88, and measures 57 × 22 cms.
(see Chapter XIII, by Dr. Möller).
90. _Panel stela._ Similar to Nos. 88 and 89, but of much thicker
wood, and badly broken (see Chapter XIII, by Dr. Möller).
_Chamber (F)._
91. _Broken shafts of arrows, parts of bows, a wooden mallet, and a
wooden hoe._ These antiquities came from the rubbish in chamber
_F_, at the bottom of pit _D_.
92. _Parts of a four-stringed musical instrument._ See No. 63 A,
also Pl. LXXI. 92.
_Pottery._ Examples of the different kinds of pottery vessels found
in this tomb are figured in Pl. LXXIV.
The letters and figures refer to the lettering on the Plan (Pl. LV). The
four specimens marked GEN. came from the corridor and passage.
In the right corner of the plate are examples of mud-sealings found in
the rubbish that covered the floor.
_Pit Tombs Nos. 38 and 39._
Both these are of common pit-tomb type, and were possibly made for the
retainers of the owner of tomb No. 37. They were carefully examined but
found to be plundered. Only a few fragments of pottery vessels similar
to those from tombs No. 24 and 25 were found in the sand filling them
(Pl. XXX).
_Tomb No. 41._
A large tomb south of No. 37. This has not yet been excavated or
examined, for it was only discovered a few days before ending the work
of season 1911 (Pl. XXX).
CHAPTER XIII
THE HIERATIC TEXTS OF TOMB NO. 37
BY GEORGE MÖLLER
89. _Wooden stela of Ihŷ_ (Pl. LXXV). This tablet is composed of two
boards held together by pegs or dowels, and covered with a fine coat of
stucco, the surface of which has been polished to receive the writing.
Upon it are the following representations:--Above, to the right, is
drawn the sacred Barque of Sokaris; below, to the left, is figured the
deceased with staff and sceptre, and before him, a boy offering a goose,
a table with offerings, a lotus-flower, loaves of bread, joints of meat,
&c. The legend is in the hieratic writing typical of the Hyksos period,
and reads:--
[Illustration: hieroglyph]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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