THE
TOMB
OF
TUTU.
9
form
and
colour
which
marks
the
period.
No
counterpart
or
precedent
exists
in
Egypt.1
The
model
seems
to
have
been
taken
directly
from
the
columns
of
the
palace
in
the
city,
which
the
new
love
for
faience
inlay
had
covered
with
ornamentation.
Pictures
of
the
palace
show
us
that
the
royal
bedroom
and
other
of
the
private
apartments
of
the
King
were
furnished
with
columns,
from
the
neck
of
which
birds
hung
(ostensibly
sculptured
in
the
round,
but
in
reality
only
in
greater
or
less
relief).2
Con¬
sistently
with
these
representations,
the
ruins
of
the
palace
actually
yielded
fragments
of
columns
decorated
with
designs
akin
to
those
employed
here.3
On
the
abacus
of
our
column
(PL
xiv.)
is
a
line
of
hieroglyphs
between
two
rows
of
petals,
spelling
the
King's
names
on
the
south
side,
and
on
the
west
that
of
the
Aten
(later
form).
The
stems
of
the
capital
have
at
the
top
a
row
of
the
group
of
signs
spelling
the
word
nhh,
"
eternity,"
and
below
this
a
row
formed
by
a
flower
and
its
bud
alternating
with
another
seen
full-face
(con-
volvuli
?).
The
sheathing
leaves
of
the
papyrus-
heads
are
seen
at
the
foot
of
each.
The
eight
sections
representing
the
inserted
stems
are
here
devoted
to
ornamentation;
first
and
very
in¬
congruously
by
a
row
of
uraei,
then
by
a
line
of
petals,
finally
by
persea
fruit
and
by
corn¬
flowers.
Below
the
neck
of
the
column
the
floral
design
is
again
employed
between
plain
bands.
There
follows
a
band
made
up
of
three
or
four
bunches
of
five
ducks,
each
hanging
head
down¬
wards
over
a
table
(?)
formed
by
two
bundles
of
bound
reeds.
Each
bunch
of
birds
is
separated
from
the
next
by
a
similar
bundle
set
up¬
right.
The
tablet
shows
the
King,
Queen,
and
1
It
is
not
unlikely,
however,
that
the
columns
of
Tomb
16
would
have
been
treated
in
this
way
(V.,
vii.,
and
p.
13).
2
Wooden
columns
of
pavilions,
etc.,
may
of
course
have
shown
fully
modelled
birds.
Cf.
II.,
xxxii.,
and
the
remarks
on
p.
35
of
that
volume.
3
Cf.
Petrie,
Tell
el
Amarna,
Pis.
vii.,
ix.,
x.,
xi.
Merytaten
worshipping.4
In
section
the
column
resembles
closely
those
already
met
with
(cf.
V.,
vii.).5
The
transverse
architraves
are
inscribed
as
usual
on
the
inner
face
which
meets
the
eye.
These
inscriptions
begin
at
the
entrance,
and,
continuing
above
the
east
doorway,
end
in
the
centre
in
a
sign
common
to
both
(A
B
E,
A
B
D).
The
architrave
above
the
three
removed
columns
is
also
inscribed
on
the
west
side,
but
the
beginning
of
the
text
is
on
the
part
of
the
transverse
architrave
adjacent
to
it
(ABC).
The
formulary
A
B
is
common
to
all
three
(translation
on
p.
32).
Burial
Vault
(PL
xiii.).—-This
tomb,
like
nearly
all
the
others,
shows
signs
of
a
make¬
shift
place
of
burial.
No
thought
was
given
to
appearances;
for
a
stairway
was
sunk
between
the
last
columns
at
the
north
end
of
the
hall
in
such
a
way
as
to
cut
into
all
four.
Yet
consider¬
able
labour
was
expended
in
the
effort
to
provide
an
inviolable
sepulchre.
A
flight
of
twenty
steps,
passing
under
the
rock
floor
at
the
seventh
stair
and
curving
slightly
southwards
to
a
land¬
ing,
turns
westwards
there
at
a
right
angle
and
at
the
thirty-fourth
step
reaches
a
small
chamber.
From
the
floor
of
this
the
stairway
continues
almost
due
north
and
at
the
fifty-fourth
step
reaches
a
rough
hole
in
which
a
fitting
interment
could
scarcely
be
made.
B.
Scenes
and
Inscriptions.
South
Wall-Thickness
(Plate
xv.).—The
shocking
mutilation
which
this
wall
underwent
a
few
years
ago
may
be
judged
from
the
fact
that,
of
the
fifteen
columns
which
covered
the
inner
half
from
top
to
bottom,
only
a
few
scattered
signs
survive.
Fortunately
the
text
is
recover-
4
In
Plate
xiv.
I
ought
probably
to
have
extended
the
tablet
a
little
further
to
the
left,
leaving
room
for
Mery¬
taten,
whose
figure
is
hinted
at
there
and
is
shown
on
the
broken
column.
6
Similar
columns
in
the
city
seem
to
have
broken
each
stem
up
into
four
reeds
(Petrie,
loc.
cit.).
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