Pit Tomb No. 28.

This grave ([Pl. XXX]) had even less in it than No. 27; in the shaft was an intrusive burial of a poorish type. The chambers, which were choked with rubbish, contained only a pair of copper forceps, a brown stone bead, and one hydroceramic vase ([Pl. LIII]. 1).

Pit Tomb No. 29.

This tomb ([Pl. XXX]) gave access to two other similar graves on either side of it, Nos. 29 A and B. The three were plundered, and their chambers filled with sand almost to the ceiling. In the shaft of No. 29 was a burial with ‘dug-out coffin’ yielding a scarab, and in its chamber were two other burials, illustrated in [Pl. LIII]. 4. These were typical examples of the ‘dug-out coffin’. They contained ‘dried’ bodies wrapped in a simple winding-sheet (Intermediate Period?).

No. 29 A. This could not be thoroughly excavated, as the mouth of its shaft was under the southern part of the excavations which has not been cleared, and the sand poured down from above it as fast as it was removed from below, making it too dangerous to clear.

No. 29 B. was only accessible through a small hole in the south-west corner of pit No. 29; it gave equal trouble, and could only be excavated under considerable risk, its pit being partially under the foundations of the temple wall. It was full of plundered mummies huddled together under a great weight of sand and stones thrown in by the temple workmen when building the wall. With them was a wooden head-rest, a canopic jar lid, and a scribe’s palette, some roughly made chair legs, pieces of cartonnage (of linen covered with plaster, gilt), and a long flexible wooden implement, two metres in length, perhaps a weaver’s batten. The types of pottery found in these chambers are shown in [Pl. LIII]. 5:—

Pit Tombs Nos. 31-34.