The mummy, lying on its side, was reduced to a black powder through spontaneous combustion, caused by the damp that had filtered through from above. It had a cartonnage mask covering the head and shoulders, with gilt face, the head-dress painted yellow and striated with grey-green bands which had oval spots in black (illustrating the use of the violet ornaments found in tomb No. 24). Embedded in the wrappings, at the small of the back, was a blue faience hippopotamus ([Pl. LI]. 1). Round the neck a gold and obsidian necklace and a ‘Shen’ brooch of gold and cornelian ([Pl. LI]. 2). On the breast, concealed in the linen wrappings, was a bronze mirror with ebony handle mounted and inlaid with gold. The inscription upon it reads
In the Southern Chamber. At the entrance were the front part and pieces of the drawer of the toilet-box ([Pl. XLVIII]. 1), three alabaster vase lids, an alabaster vase, and a gold bead. Besides these articles this chamber had planks from wooden canopies and coffins, and the remains of three mummies (one a child) charred to soot. In the depression in the floor and lower chamber were found two broken ivory crocodiles, two splinters of a mystic wand, and the body of a stripped mummy; under the latter, in the dust, were beads of a necklace.
In the North Chamber. Among the many parts of coffins was one bearing inscriptions giving the usual prayers, &c., for a certain lady named
