TAA i.2.3.49

{October} (31 Continued)

<With regard to the libation> It would appear from the materials that this substance <it> is
composed of - <seemingly> fatty or oily substance mixed with (?) wood-pitch -
that it is more anointment than a libation. This oil <liquid>
or ointment no doubt was applied in religious ceremony
for the consecration of the dead King before appearing before the
Great God ,/<(>Osiris) of the underworld. It is particularly noticeable
that on both the Third Coffin and the Mummy the head
and feet have been carefully avoided, even <even> though the feet
of the first coffin were anointed with a similar material.

Remark the episode that occurred "in the house of Simon
the leper", when "there came a woman having an alabaster
box of ointment of spikenard very precious; … she is
come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying."
Mark 14, 1-8.

P.W. {Percy White}

Nov. 1^st

Removed the Royal Mummy to N^o 15. It took ten men
to bring out of the Tomb and carry it up. Placed in the sun
for a few hours, while Lucas, Burton & self hammered
off the black coating upon the lid of the third Coffin.
Heat of the sun not sufficient today to make any real
impression upon the pitch-like material which has
stuck fast the mummy & Coffins.

Lady. C.