TAA i.3.16.5
Annotated typewritten notes on the niche containing the wooden shawabti-like figure. Pinned to it is a piece of (reused) paper (4.7 x 7.0 cm (h x w)) including Carter's transcriptions for this figure.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
No.259.
A NICHE cut in the w. corner of the north wall, facing beyond
(left) the head end of the sarcophagus, 130 cents. above the floor of the Burial-chamber.
THE NICHE takes the form of a roughly cut shallow recess of
rectangular shape, 24 cents. high, 18 cents. wide, and 10 cents.
deep. It was closed by the means of two irregular splinters of
limestone, which were plastered over flush with the surface of
the wall and then painted over to match the colour decoration of
the wall.
IT CONTAINED a small wooden shawabti-like figure stood upon a
brick (pedestal) of unbaked clay, and faced south. The figure
was partially swathed with strips of fine linen - the head and
face left uncovered.
THE WOODEN SHAWABTI-LIKE FIGURE, 13.3 cents. high (= 7 digits
approx.), takes the form of a mummy, having the winding sheet
painted white, the head-dress black, the face and hands tinted
lemon <(?orpiment)> yellow, and the features delineated in black.
THE BRICK (pedestal), 9.5 cents. long, 4.5 cents. wide,
and 1.8 cents. thick (= 5 x 2½ x 1 digits), has graven upon its upper
surface, in front of the figure, the following incantation in
hieroglyphic characters:
<[ 𓂀 ]>
The brick (pedestal) has minute globules of a resinous mat-
erial exuding from its clay, and it has traces of red paint on its
under surface.
The rubric included in Ch. CLI of the Book of the Dead referring
to this figure and its brick reads:
"This formula is to be spoken over a brick of unbaked clay,
on which this formula has been graven, and a hole made for it
in the wall of the nether chamber; and a figure of im-wood seven
fingers in height, whose mouth has been opened, is fastened on this
brick in the northern wall, its face towards the south, and it is
covered up."