TAA i.2.3.103

{18th November, continued}

case, may be described as special amulets, but what the

powers ascribed to them were is not known, but they were placed

there for the betterment of the dead and were made as dainty and

costly as possible.

Upon the head was laid <placed a sort of <skull> cap of> on fine linen a design <and worked upon a> a design of curve

serpent pattern, this was prop supposed to secure <for the dead one> a sight of the

sun.

(4 T) 

This actual skull-cap <ll> of the thinnest linen cambric fabric

having device of four ureii^sic of fine beadwork meta worked with

very fine faience and gold beads, the centres of the hood of the

cobras bearing small cartouches, takes in order sequence the

letter 4.T., and fits closely to the crown of the head. As it would

have been practically impossible to remove this device owing to

its fragile nature & minuteness of work, it was consolidated

with paraffin wax and left in place.

(4 U)

Upon the top of the head of the King, was an enormous pad

some … centimetres in height, of linen wads and wra bandages

wrapped in the manner of a modern surgical head bandage.

This was of a conical form and in its shape was suggestive

of a crown. The linen was in this case in far better preservation

than any hitherto found upon the mummy. Its purpose is

obscure, though possibly it either represented the form of

the crown of Osiris (the mummy being necessarily made in

his semblance), or was merely a pad intended to fill

up the space of empty space that otherwise would

have been left empty in hollow of the headdress of the

Mask.. The former explanation seems for the moment to be

(4 V)

the more probable. Besides a small amuletic head-

rest <(4.V.)>, found beneath the above mentioned head placed pad

this completed the total ornaments found upon the Royal

Mummy.

After photographic records are made of the King's remains,

these will be reverently re-wrapped and returned to the