Illahun, Kahun and Gurob by W.M. Flinders Petrie;

Author:W.M. Flinders Petrie;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2023-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

50. Another tomb, the finest of all at Illahun, is that of Amenardus; the whole contents of which were taken at the Bulak Museum. The innermost coffin of all had a nonsense inscription. Next to that was a splendid false sarcophagus, with all the inscriptions carved in the wood (“Kahun,”XXVI); as it could not be safely moved entire, I took it to pieces, marked the parts, and transported it in perfect condition to Bulak ready to be set up. Beneath it stood a bier, framed of wood, with four lions’ feet for legs to it. On that was the wooden sarcophagus, stuccoed white, and finely ribbed all over to imitate drapery. On the mummy was a network of beads, arranged thus; 5 rows down to the beadwork scarab, 4 lines on each side of that, 1 row to the ba bird, 3 rows to the genii of Amenti, 3 rows down to a band, and 15 rows onward to the feet. Outside of this coffin were a jackal and hawk carved in wood and painted, fixed on the head and foot of the false sarcophagus. On another similar burial were the jackal and hawk; and inside a coffin of a woman with the same style of ribbed drapery modelled in stucco. At the head of each of these burials was a square box with a short obelisk standing up on the lid, painted white and red; in the box a quantity of very small clay ushabtis of the roughest kind. By the coffins were two small model false sarcophagi, duly inscribed with white paint along the edges and corners; and containing a large quantity of the same very rude ushabtis. At the sides of Amenardus were two carved and painted wooden Osiris figures. The Osiris Khent-amenti is about two feet high, well executed, and fixed on a tray or hand-barrow, for carrying it, with four handles at the corners. The Osiris Sokar is fixed on a block stand. The last interment was one of Pafui (K. XXV, 17), which was a square coffin, containing a stuccoed figure-case with polished red face. This tomb is perhaps the finest of that age on record; and I hope that in the Ghizeh Museum we may see the various objects placed together, and in their original arrangement, as a complete instance of an interment. The use of giving this detailed description is to illustrate the custom of the time, and to enable curators to understand the age and original purpose of the various stray things without a history which crowd our European collections.

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