6. A wooden box, painted white, measuring 50 x 30 x 30 cms., which has on the under side of the lid four entries in hieratic ([Pl. XLII]. 4). They mention a date ‘third month of winter season, day 10’; a ‘Scribe of the Necropolis’; an ‘Overseer of workmen’, called Amen-renpet; an account of three vases of liquids; names of officials, and an account of grain, together with the name of a wood.[23]
7. Two burials of poor people. One was enveloped in rushes bound together with rope, the other with reeds ([Pl. XLII]. 3). The bodies in both cases had a single winding sheet, but show no signs of mummification. They appear to belong to a late epoch.
8. A wooden Osiride figure ([Pl. XLII]. 1) covered with bitumen and wrapped in linen. The arms, crossed over the breast, have in the right hand the Flail, and in the left hand the Crook, which are made of copper. Period XVIII (?) Dynasty. (It is similar to the bitumened figures found in the tombs in the Valley of the Kings.)
9. Shawabti figures of the Intermediate period in model coffins ([Pl. XLIII]). The most important specimens were:—
A. A wooden sarcophagus with figure wrapped in linen. The inscription in linear hieroglyphs gives the de hetep seten formula to Osiris, for offerings for
B. A clay coffin with wooden shawabti, the lid crudely anthropoid in shape, and roughly decorated with green and yellow in the design of the Rîshi coffin type (see [Pl. XLIII]); the rough figure inside has green stripes painted upon it.
CHAPTER XII
THE LATE MIDDLE KINGDOM AND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD NECROPOLIS
By Howard Carter
DEEP below the foundations of the ‘Valley’-Temple of Queen Hatshepsût in the Birâbi are rock-hewn tombs, or pit and corridor types, dating from the XIIth Dynasty on to the Intermediate Period.