Volume II Part 35 (2/2)

London: 1863, 4to See also above, page 380, footnote 387, of the present volume

Not the least important are the inally these were identical in design, but one is now considerably eneral for terminal and the upper shaped like the bust, arms, and head of a wo, above which appear two tall plu that their wearer has been justified before Osiris, while the shoulders and arms are enveloped in a kind of net The whole case is of _cartonnage_, and the net-like appearance is given by glueing down several layers of linen, which have been so entirely covered with hexagonal perforations as to be reduced to the condition of a net, over the son has then been painted blue, so that in the end we have a yelloork over a blue ground Both colours are of extre and the separate filaments of the plumes are indicated in the same way as the network These mummy cases are, so far as we can discover, different from any previously found

The funerary canopy of Queen Isi-e by itself

Its purpose was to cover the pavilion or deck-house under which the Queen's body rested in its passage across the Nile It is a piece of leather patchwork When laid flat upon the ground it forms a Greek cross, 22 feet 6 inches in one direction, and 19 feet 6 inches in the other The central panel, which is 9 feet long by 6 wide,[408] covered the roof of the pavilion, while the flaps for down perpendicularly upon the sides[409] Many thousand pieces of gazelle hide have been used in the work

[408] These yptian Queen_, by the Hon H VILLIERS STUART: Murray, 1882 8vo

[409] Mr VILLIERS STUART gives a facsimile in colour of the canopy, and a fanciful illustration of it in place, upon a boat copied from one in the _Tombs of the Queens_

The central panel has an ultraitudinally into two equal parts, one half being sprinkled with red and yellow stars, and the other covered with alternate bands of vultures, hieroglyphs, and stars The ”fore and aft” flaps of the canopy are entirely covered with a chess-board pattern of alternate red and green squares, while the lateral flaps have each, in addition, six bands of orna of ovals of Pinoteed scarabs, papyrus heads, and crouching gazelles The colours employed are a red or pink, like a pale shade of what is now called Indian red, a golden yellow, a pale yellow not greatly differing froreen, and pale ultraround of the central panel, where it est the vault of heaven; the rest are distributed skilfully and harmoniously, but without the observance of any particular rule, over the rest of the decoration The ireen, bright yelloith buff or ivory colour, and green with yellow The bad effect of the juxtaposition of buff with red was understood, and that contrast only occurs in the hieroglyphs within the ovals

The arrangeyptian hatred for syeneral result is well calculated to have a proper effect under an Egyptian sun The leather, where uninjured, still retains the softness and lustre of kid

The Osiride mummy case of Rameses II is of unpainted wood, and in the style of the twenty-first dynasty It has been thought that the features resemble those of Her Hor hin; they certainly are not those of Ralyin State in Cairo_, in _Harper's Magazine_ for July, 1882

Besides these important objects, the vault contained, as we have said, an immense number of small articles, no description of which has yet been published

An explanation of the presence of all these le unpretentious vault, is not far to seek In the reign of Rameses IX, of the twentieth dynasty, it was discovered thatthose of the Pharaoh Sevek-em-Saf and his queen Noubkhas had been forced and rifled by robbers, while others had been ed An inquiry was held and soht to justice The ”Abbott” and the ”Aether with the confession of one of the crienerally lawless condition of Thebes at the time seem to have led to the institution of periodical inspections of the royal tombs, and of the muned by the officer appointed to carry them out and titnesses besides, are inscribed upon the shrouds and cases of the s fro the favourite, apparently from its supposed security, but as the power of the monarchy declined, as disorders became more frequent and discipline more difficult to preserve, it appears to have been at last determined to substitute, as the burial-place of the royal line, a single, unornauarded hole for the series of subterranean palaces which had shown themselves so unable to shi+eld their occupants from insult and destruction

[411] See MASPERO, _Une Enquete Judiciare a Thebes_, Paris, 1871, 4to

The Her-Hor fareat predecessors as had escaped the ghouls of the Western, Valley were gathered to their sides