1. B. A coffin containing a mummy of a lady named
The coffin is far more elaborate than the former one, and generally finer both in workmanship and painting. The scenes painted upon it are of the deceased witnessing the weighing of her heart against the feather of truth in the presence of two apes representing Thoth, the devouring monster Lord of Duat, the goddess of truth Maat, Horus, Osiris, Nephthys, and two children of Horus. Below, the spirits of Ash-Mut and winged figures of Ra on either side.
Round the case, on the two outer sides and end, is a band of coloured hieroglyphs; and in the interior on the bottom, a painted figure of the goddess Mut surmounted by the winged Horus.
All the inscriptions give the de hetep seten formula invoking the gods in favour of the deceased, they also give her name and parentage
The mummy was enveloped in a well-preserved dark terra-cotta coloured linen shroud, tied underneath and held in position by several narrow bands of brown and yellow linen, making a rich piece of colour and delicious harmony in contrast to the clean white and decorated interior of the coffin. Lying at the head was a fillet of leaves, like a diadem, sewn together and adorned with tiny petals of flowers ([Pl. XVII]. 2). The swathings under the shroud were similar to the first mummy (1. A), with the exception that the linen was coarser and the bandages broader (185 mms.). Among the folds were four Amenti figures and one Bennu bird in wax ([Pl. XVII]. 2); these were placed on the right vertical nipple line and on a level with the base of the Xephisternum.
The body was of a female adult of approximately thirty-five years of age. The hands were placed between the thighs.