6
THE
ROOK
TOMBS
OF
EL
AMA.RNA.
leading
to
No.
6
was
first
made,
showing
that
that
site
was
one
of
the
first
to
be
appro¬
priated.
At
a
point
opposite
Tomb
3
two
short
roads
were
led
off
from
N
to
Tombs
3
and
5.
When
Meryra
made
his
tomb,
however,
he
laid
out
the
great
avenue
K,
thirty-one
feet
in
breadth
and
stretching
from
the
foot
of
the
hills
to
a
great
clearing
in
the
plain
mid-way
to
the
river.
In
this
square
Professor
Petrie
found
three
mounds,
two
of
them
approached
by
ramps
on
all
four
sides.1
The
northernmost
has
a
square
brick
foundation,
and
its
eastern
side
faces
down
the
avenue.
Only
the
central
one
is
shaped
like
an
altar,
and
I
am
tempted
to
see
in
that
mound
to
which
the
avenue
leads
the
site
of
a
great
rostrum
where
Akhenaten's
public
appearances
were
made.
This
is
figured
in
the
tomb
of
Huya
with
four
ascents,
and
as
having
a
raised
shrine
opposite
it
and
an
altar
between
—the
exact
relation
of
these
remains.
The
rest
of
these
roads
from
the
tombs
are
far
from
converging
to
one
point,
but
make
directly
for
the
river
to
the
north
of
the
city,
perhaps
in
order
to
avoid
the
loose
sand
of
the
watercourses
to
right
and
left.2
The
roads
may
be
briefly
described
as
follows
:—
A.
Road
to
1a,
1b
from
Iv
or
C,
only
trace¬
able
a
short
distance.
Direction
\2\°.
B.
Road
to
Tombs
1
and
2
from
the
avenue
(?),
12
ft.
broad.
Direction
27°.
C.
Road
along
the
foot
of
the
hills
(?).
D.
Road
to
the
wacly
from
far
across
the
plain.
Not
very
straight,
but
well
cleared,
16
ft.
broad.
Direction
23°.
E.
Road
to
the
wady
from
the
S.
tombs
(?),
12
ft.
broad.
Direction
2°.
F.
Road
to
stela
V.
Scarcely
visible.
1
Petbie,
T.
A.,
plate
xlii.
2
The
line
which
runs
parallel
to
the
river
from
a
bay
in
the
hills,
just
outside
the
"
North
Town
"
in
Petrie's
map,
is
not
a
road
but
the
remains
of
an
outer
dyke
or
wall
of
the
town.
G.
Narrow
and
ill-defined
path
aiming
at
Tomb
3,
but
bending
off
to
the
tombs
round
3c.
Direction
92°.
H.
Narrow
path
aiming
at
Tomb
4,
but
bend¬
ing
off
towards
Tomb
3.
Direction
93£°.
Iv.
Avenue
above
described.
Direction
104°.
L.
Broad
road
to
Tomb
4,
from
the
junction
with
N.
M.
A
similar
road
to
Tomb
5.
N.
Road
to
Tomb
6,
14
ft.
broad.
Direction
102°.
It
is
nearly
parallel
with
Iv,
but
makes
a
sudden
bend
away
from
it,
the
original
direc¬
tion
being
continued
by
a
faint
track.
0.
Road
to
Tomb
6
from
a
different
point;
faint
and
irregular.
Direction
93°.
P.
Road
to
Tomb
6
(?).
Fairly
broad.
Direction
87°.
Q,
R.
Two
narrow
paths,
diverging
from
a
common
track.
Q
leads
towards
a
collection
of
stone
huts;
R
seems
intended
to
ascend
to
the
top
of
the
hills.
The
Chronology
of
the
Tombs.
As
dates
are
sjrecified
only
in
Tombs
1
and
2,
the
clearest
evidence
of
sequence
is
the
number
of
daughters
who
accompany
the
King
and
Queen
in
the
various
tombs.
Although
this
is
open
to
error,
since
even
a
precise
artist
might
well
ignore
infants
at
any
rate,
the
regularly
increasing
family
of
Akhenaten
seems
to
have
been
faithfully
noted.
The
case
of
failure
in
the
tomb
of
Huya,
which
I
cited
in
Part
i,
p.
42,
is
much
ameliorated
by
my
subsequent
discovery
of
scenes
in
which
four
daughters
appear;
but
the
royal
tomb
seems
to
ignore
two
children.
The
sequence
of
the
tombs
on
this
basis,
so
far
as
my
information
goes,
is
as
follows:—
(N
=
North
group
;
S
=
South
group
of
tombs).
One
daughter.
S
9
(Mahu);
S
11
(Rames).
Stela)
of
4th
and
6th
years.
Two.
S23
(Any);
stelae
of
6th
and8thyears.
Three.
S
10
(Apy)
;
S
25
(Ay.
Nezemet-mut
shown)
;
S
8
(Tutu)
;
N
3
(Ahmes);
N
5
(Pentu).
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