Chapter XII · THE LATE MIDDLE KINGDOM AND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD NECROPOLIS By Howard Carter (continued 2)

87. A wooden jewel-box. This is similar to the box found in tomb No. 24 (Pl. XLVI).

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).