TAA i.12.18.recto

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                                                        THE FIRST COFFIN.

112|705. THE FIRST COFFIN LYING WITHIN THE SARCOPHAGUS.

113|707. THE HEAD OF THE EFFIGY UPON FIRST COFFIN.

                 Note:- Carved of an oaken wood and overlaid with sheet gold.

                 Upon the forehead are <the> two insignix[?]/<a> delicately worked in gold

                 and inlaid – the vulture Nekhebet of the South, the serpent
                 Buto of the North, symbols of the kingdom of Upper and Lower

                 Egypt. But perhaps the most touching of all was the fact that

                 around those emblems was a tiny wreath of flowers. I can assure
                 you, among all that regal splendour, that royal magnificence,

                 everywhere the glint of gold, there was nothing so touching as         

                 those few withered flowers,/<.> s/<S>till retaining their tinge of colour,

                 they told us what a short period three thousand three hundred

                 years really was – but Yesterday and the Morrow. In fact, that

                 little touch of nature made that ancient and our modern civil-

                 ization kin.

113a|708. THE HEAD OF THE EFFIGY, FRONT VIEW.

                  Note:- Thus, from stairway, steep descending passage, Antechamber

                  and Burial Chamber, from golden shrines, and from that noble

                  sarcophagus, our eyes were turned to its contents: a golden coffin,

                  in form a recumbent figure of the young boy king, symbolising Osiris,

                  or, it would seem by its fearless gaze, man’s ancient trust in

                  immortality.

                                                           THE SECOND COFFIN.

114|721.  UNCOVERING THE SECOND COFFIN

115|724.  THE SECOND COFFIN WITHIN THE FIRST COFFIN.

116|727.  THE LID OF THE SECOND COFFIN.

                  Note:- Like the former coffin it is carved of an oaken wood, oe/<v>er-

                  laid with sheet-gold, but in this case sumptuously in laid with   

                  polychrome glass imitating red jasper, carnelean^sic, lapis lazuli and

                  turquoise.