TAA i.12.14

                                                                                           (2)

It was beyond all question the Burial Chamber of the

tomb, for there, before us, was one of the Great Golden Shrines  
beneath which kings of Egypt were laid. So large was this

structure that it filled within a little the entire area of the

chamber. On its eastern end were two large folding doors, closed

and bolted. Eagerly we drew those bolts, slowly swung <them> back the

doors, and there within was a second shrine with similar bolted

doors. Over this second shrine drooped a linen pall, covered

with golden rosettes. This made us realize that we were in the

presence of a dead king. Carefully we reclosed those doors and

passed on to the further corner of the chamber.

          Here a surprise awaited us, for an open door, leading east-

wards from the Burial Chamber, led to yet another chamber, mus/<c>h
smaller and not so lofty. This proved to</>be the Innermost

Treasury. From where we stood, a glance sufficed to tell us that

there within this small chamber lay perhaps the greatest treasures 
of the tomb.
 

          Blocking ingress was a black figure of the Jackal Animal Anubis

upon its golden pylon. Facing the doorway, at the further end,
stood a magnificant Shrine-shaped-chest completly^sic overlaid with

gold and surmounted by rows of sacred cobras. Surrounding this

cha/<e>st, free-standing, were statues of four goddesses, gracious

little figures with outstretched arms. They were the tutelary

goddesses ISIS and NEPHTHYS, NEITH and SELKIT, guarding their

charge the Canopic equipment. But, whereas, the figures at the
front and back kept their gaze firmly fixed upon their charge, an

additional note of realism was imparted by the other two, for
their heads were turned sideways, lookong^sic over their shoulders <towards the doorway>,

as though to watch against surprise.
 

          There was a simple grandeur about that monument that made an

irresistable appeal to the imagination. There were a number

of other things in the chamber, but it was hard to take them in,

so inevitably were our eyes drawn back again to that monument –

it was undoubtedly the Canopic Equipment which plays such an im-

portant part in the ritual of mummification.