[Illustration: 1. OBJECTS FROM DECORATED RECTANGULAR COFFINS] [Illustration: 2. OBJECTS FROM PLAIN RECTANGULAR COFFINS] TOMB 37 [Illustration: 1. OBJECTS FROM A RECTANGULAR GABLE-TOPPED COFFIN] [Illustration: 2. OBJECTS FROM PLAIN RECTANGULAR COFFIN] TOMB 37 [Illustration: 1. OBJECTS FROM RÎSHI COFFINS] [Illustration: 2. OBJECTS FROM RÎSHI COFFINS] TOMB 37 [Illustration: 1. CHAIR AND STOOL] [Illustration: 2. _Musical Instruments_] TOMB 37 [Illustration: SCARABS, COWROIDS, AND RINGS] TOMB 37 [Illustration: BEAD NECKLACES, BANGLES, AND BRACELET] TOMB 37 [Illustration: POTTERY VESSELS] TOMB 37 [Illustration: PANEL STELAE] TOMB 37 [Illustration: 3. PANEL STELA] [Illustration: 1. WRITING TABLET. NO. 28, REV.] [Illustration: 2. WRITING TABLET. NO. 28, OBV.] TOMB 37 [Illustration: WRITING TABLET. NO. 26, OBV.] TOMB 37 [Illustration: WRITING TABLET. NO. 26, REV.] [Illustration: 1. FIG BASKETS] [Illustration: 2. BOTANICAL SPECIMENS] FOOTNOTES: [1] _Birâbi_ is the plural of _birba_, an ‘ancient temple’, but here the name is locally used more for a ‘vaulted tomb’, of which many occur in the district. [2] Unfortunately the inscription above the lady is mutilated, but the personal name, Teta-hemt, is preceded by a [Illustration: hieroglyph] _t_ and an [Illustration: hieroglyph] _s_. The _s_, as Professor Newberry has pointed out to me, must be the 3rd pers. sing. suffix _s_ ‘her’, and he would suggest the restoration [Illustration: hieroglyph] _mt-s_, ‘her mother’. An alternative reading would be [Illustration: hieroglyph] _snt-s_, ‘her sister’, but the usual writing of this group is with [Illustration: hieroglyph] _n_: thus [Illustration: hieroglyph]. [Illustration: hieroglyph] _sat-s_, ‘her daughter’, is very improbable. [3] Among this group are several tombs which may perhaps be referred to a slightly later date. [4] This was demonstrated by the presence of stone chippings bearing fragments of the temple paintings that had been chipped off in refacing. [5] The earliest inscribed specimens known bear the cartouches of Aahmes I. [6] In Spiegelberg and Newberry’s _Theban Necropolis_ (p. 8) there is upon a stela a prayer which reads: ‘May every one love him if he is spreading water upon the leaves before my stela.’ [7] Naville, _Archaeological Report_, 1894-5, p. 37. [8] In India the Sacred Fig (_Ficus religiosa_) is venerated by the natives, who will not allow the tree to suffer mutilation or destruction. [9] Loret, _Le tombeau de Thoutmes III_, Pl. 6. [10] Newberry, _Beni Hasan_, I, pp. 20, 29, 37. [11] Carter and Newberry, _Tomb of Thoutmosis IV_, pp. 9, 10. [12] On the early history of these Model Sarcophagi and Statuettes see Spiegelberg and Newberry’s _Theban Necropolis_, pp. 26-9. [13] The Rev. Dr. Collin Campbell, who was with me at the time we discovered these coffins, kindly translated the formulae upon them. [14] Erman, _A Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, p. 137. [15] Cf. similar tazza Pl. XVIII. 12.