[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.