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Nov. 8.

(275)

Today, for the first time, we were able to obtain a comprehensive

idea as to the contents of those black shrine-like chests stacked along

the S. wall of the Store-Room.

Our work had progressed sufficiently to enable us to <safely> move and open

the large upright example (275) near the south side of the doorway,

and to lift it into the Burial Chamber for inspection. Its folding

doors, tied with cord, sealed with a clay seal, bearing impressions

of two distincv/<t> seals, when opened, revealed a group of five

wooden statuettes of the king - four of them gesso-gilt draped

with linen coverings, and the fifth varnished with black resin.

All of them of exquisite workmanship resembling the King in

various forms, attitudes and pursuits, holding respectively sacred

symbols and missiles of sacred occupations in future life.

These with the two figures upon leopards in another chest,

already mentioned, show that in all probability those boxes

contain figurines symbolizing the King in various forms, duties

and pursuits in the hereafter.

Nov. 10.

(279)

Behind chest (275) and placed upon the west end of the large

flat box (278), was a plain wooden chest (N^o 279) with its

gable-shaped lid displaced and only partially covering the chest.

Its contents apparently had been robbed, ~~it was empty, save~~/<containing only (which probably did not belong to it)>

~~for~~ a model MolaTrustilis or thrusting hand mill for

grinding corn into a coarse meal. It comprises a saddle-stone

and muller made of … stone. The saddle-stone has a more

or less concave face on which grain was placed, and with

the use of the muller, shaped like an oval bun, the grain was

rubbed and ground into a meal. This model, no doubt, was

intended to symbolize trituration of grain for the food of the

divine, and ~~though the grinding of corn was peculiarly the~~

~~duty of women~~ I believe I am right in saying that, though

the grinding of corn was ~~the~~ peculiarly the duty of women, it

was the privilege of the Pharaoh to prepare the meal for the

deity, in fact he was actually the divine triturator. Statuettes