10
THE
ROOK
TOMBS
OP
EL
AMARNA.
excavated
when
it
was
found
that
a
natural
fissure
interfered
with
the
work,
and
in
disgust
at
this
mischance
the
designer
abandoned
the
whole
corner,
including
the
sculpture
on
the
adjacent
Avails,
so
that
it
remains
a
monument
only
to
his
ill-temper.
Dissatisfaction
Avith
this
part
of
the
hall
led,
then
or
later,
to
a
further
disfigurement,
by
the
construction
of
a
flight
of
steps
descending
to
a
rough
burial
chamber
just
beloAv
floor
level.
The
columns
differ
little
essentially,
though
a
good
deal
in
appearance,
from
those
in
Tomb
4
(I.
ii.),
for
in
the
latter
that
detail
Avas
probably
shoAAm
in
paint
Avliich
is
here
marked
by
the
chisel.
They
are
much
more
squat
in
appear¬
ance,
being
greater
in
girth
though
less
in
height.
Here,
too,
each
of
the
eight
bundles
of
papyri
which
the
column
represents
is
again
broken
up
above
the
sheathing
leaves
(not
sculptured
here)
into
four
stems.
About
half-
Avay
between
the
foot
and
the
bands
under
the
capital
there
is
a
break,
the
thirty-tAvo
stems
of
Avliich
the
column
is
noAV
built
up
seeming
to
be
shifted
round
by
half
a
stem's
breadth
(see
draAving
of
east
side).
This,
however,
is
due
in
reality
to
the
customary
insertion
of
shorter
papyrus
stems,
three
to
each
of
the
eight
bundles.
Each
of
these
inserted
stalks
lies
betAveen
the
original
stems
and
covers
them.
One
out
of
the
four
stems
in
each
of
the
eight
bundles,
hoAvever,
is
left
visible
and
differen¬
tiated
by
being
coloured
yelloAV,
Avhile
the
inserted
stems
are
painted
conventionally,
blue,
red,
blue.
Thus
there
are
thirty-tAvo
divisions,
above
as
beloAv,
twenty-four
of
them
represent¬
ing
the
overlaid
stems
and
eight
those
under¬
lying.
The
representation,
however,
is
not
congruous
Avitli
the
conditions
;
for
it
is
a
division
between
two
stems,
and
not
the
surface
of
one
stem,
Avhich
forms
the
centre
of
a
bundle
of
four
and
would
be
left
uncovered
by
the
inserted
stems.
This
error
appears
plainly
on
the
upper
part
of
the
capital,
where
the
thirty-
two
original
stems
again
become
visible;
for
that
stem
Avliich
Avas
left
uncovered
is
seen
not
to
coincide
Avith
any
of
the
thirty-tAvo,
but
with
a
division
between
them.
As
the
swelling
capital
represents
the
heads
of
the
papyrus,
the
leaves
of
the
calyx
are
represented
like
sheathing
(red
lines
on
yelloAv)
on
the
eight
underlying
stems
Avhich
are
visible
just
above
the
bands.
That
the
inserted
stems
consist
of
eight
bundles
of
three
is
plain
from
the
four
bands
which
unite
them
(coloured
conven¬
tionally
blue,
red,
green,
blue,
Avhereas
the
band
of
the
column
itself
is
a
natural
yelloAv).
The
colouring
of
these
overlaid
stems
and
their
bands
suggests
that
the
architect
Avas
ignorant
of
their
raison
d'etre.
The
details
of
the
columns
on
the
W.
face
are
interrupted
by
a
blank
space
representing
an
affixed
placard.
The
device
on
these
tablets
is
similar
to
that
on
the
lintels
of
the
doorways,
except
that
here
a
space
below
the
cartouches
is
occupied
by
a
design
representing
the
union
of
the
Southern
and
Northern
kingdoms,
under
the
symbol
of
their
representative
plants.
The
sign
for
"
union
"
occupies
the
centre.
The
Avhole
device
on
the
N.
column
is
shoAvn
on
Plate
iv.
and
the
ends
of
that
on
the
S.
column.
(See
p.
30
for
the
translations
of
the
prayers.)
It
may
be
Avell
to
compare
at
this
point
the
picture
of
a
papyrus
column
from
the
temple
on
the
W.
Avail
(Plate
iv./t).1
It
will
be
seen
that
the
typical
column
of
the
artist
was
of
very
different
proportions
from
those
in
the
tomb.
In
reality
the
columns
Avhen
built,
not
excavated,
may
have
approached
this
pattern.
As
Avill
be
seen
from
the
photograph
(Plate
xxvi.),
even
the
remaining
columns
have
been
greatly
mutilated.
A
number
of
cups
have
been
cut
in
the
base
of
the
S.
column,
to
hold
porous
water-jars,
Avith
ducts
for
draining
off
1
The
Plate
is
inexact.
The
colouring
below
the
tablet
is
correct
in
the
right
hand
column,
thus
showing
the
apparent
twist
of
the
bands
noted
above,
but
is
lost
in
its
fellow.
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