22. Plain rectangular flat-topped coffin. Like No. 75 (broken).
Contents:—Mummy of a woman, decayed and fallen to pieces. In the débris traces of plaited hair and two red jasper scarabs ([Pl. LXXII]. 22).
23. Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Empire. Ground colour white. Head-dress, blue striated with yellow lines. Face, yellow, with the eye-sockets of bronze, eyeballs of aragonite, and pupils of obsidian. Decoration, round the neck a collarette painted to represent rows of coloured beads, fringed with drop pendants, and with hawk-headed clasps. Below, over the breast, the vulture Nekhebyt and goddess Nut. On either side, at the ankles, the jackal Anubis is represented resting on his pylon. At the feet Isis and at the head Nephthys. There are three transverse bands round the body and one longitudinal band down the front, all of which contain the usual religious formulae with the owner’s name
Contents:—Mummy of a man with his hands crossed over the thighs. On the third finger of the left hand, attached by string, was a round-backed green glazed steatite scarab ([Pl. LXXII]. 23).
Beneath the coffin, and lying on the floor of the chamber, was a walking staff 142 cms. in length. The bark upon the stick was intact and it resembles that of cherry wood. The end was worn, and at the handle a natural projecting branch was trimmed so as to form a crutch.
24. Decorated anthropoid coffin of the New Empire. This coffin was similar to No. 23, but not so fine. The eyes were only painted, and the decoration varied by having the goddess Nut alone below the collar, the absence of the two jackals on the sides of the ankles, and Nephthys on the head. The legends, between the bands of formulae, referring to the gods had been added in black ink after the completion of the coffin. It bore the name
Contents:—Mummy of a woman carefully wrapped, with the right arm across the breast, and the left arm resting at the side. She was covered with a sheet which when removed exposed two statuettes lying on either side of the knees of the mummy ([Pl. LXVII]. 2), and upon the shins a round shallow basket ([Pl. LXIV]. 24) containing a heart scarab made of unburnt steatite bearing an enigmatical inscription ([Pl. LXXII]. 24). On the left hand, tied with string to the third finger, were two scarabs: one, high-backed and of blue glazed steatite, bore the name of the ‘Herald Ren-senb’; the other, high-backed and of blue paste, had a winged kheper surmounted by Ra engraved upon its base ([Pl. LXXII]. 24). Underneath the mummy was a very small basket containing three copper forceps and a kohl-stick.