The letters and figures refer to the lettering on the Plan ([Pl. LV]). The four specimens marked GEN. came from the corridor and passage.
In the right corner of the plate are examples of mud-sealings found in the rubbish that covered the floor.
Pit Tombs Nos. 38 and 39.
Both these are of common pit-tomb type, and were possibly made for the retainers of the owner of tomb No. 37. They were carefully examined but found to be plundered. Only a few fragments of pottery vessels similar to those from tombs No. 24 and 25 were found in the sand filling them ([Pl. XXX]).
Tomb No. 41.
A large tomb south of No. 37. This has not yet been excavated or examined, for it was only discovered a few days before ending the work of season 1911 ([Pl. XXX]).
CHAPTER XIII
THE HIERATIC TEXTS OF TOMB NO. 37
By George Möller
89. Wooden stela of Ihŷ ([Pl. LXXV]). This tablet is composed of two boards held together by pegs or dowels, and covered with a fine coat of stucco, the surface of which has been polished to receive the writing. Upon it are the following representations:—Above, to the right, is drawn the sacred Barque of Sokaris; below, to the left, is figured the deceased with staff and sceptre, and before him, a boy offering a goose, a table with offerings, a lotus-flower, loaves of bread, joints of meat, &c. The legend is in the hieratic writing typical of the Hyksos period, and reads:—
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‘Ihŷ comes in the boat of Sokaris; to him has been granted justification. [56] He is favoured of the Lord of the Shrine. [57] A perkheru-offering in bread and wild fowl to the veteran in the presence of Ptah, Ihŷ, justified.’ |