The method used in wrapping the mummies was found in general to be similar in all cases. They had always one shroud of linen laid over them, and sometimes one underneath, with an occasional one between the actual bindings of the body. The limbs were separately bound. In some instances the mummy was tied up with long twisted linen ropes bound round, spirally, from head to foot, and these, I believe, had been re-wrapped. Some of the mummies were bitumenized.
In the Rîshi burials the fashion adopted closely resembled the Rîshi interment discovered by Professor Petrie (Petrie, Qurneh, pp. 7-9).
The scarabs found on the mummies, when worn as a ring, were always placed on the third finger of the left hand. A few beads sprinkled among the wrappings of the body was also found to be a not uncommon custom.
Among other objects pertaining to the funeral equipments found in this cache there were: No. 16, a rush-work basket containing articles of toilet use, and a scarab of Amenhetep I (Pls. LXIV, LXV. 16); No. 25, another similar basket containing what appears to be part of a scribe’s outfit ([Pl. LXVI]). Here a reed-case and palette illustrates the hieroglyph
Catalogue of the Antiquities found in Tomb No. 37.[51]
Entrance.
1. A bunch of vine leaves and twigs lying upon the débris of the tomb.
North Wing.
2. Rîshi coffin. Shell, cut out of a stem of a tree, and left quite plain and rough. Lid, painted detail and feathering like No. 66, but in this case painted upon a yellow ground only. It bears no inscriptions, and the face is coloured yellow (Pls. LVII, LXII. 2).