TAA i.3.5.2

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goddesses and their genii, they were also under the protection of 

Geb, Nut, Anubis, Atum, Ptah-seker-Osiris and a falcon god who 

guard the dead.

          The canopy, some two metres in height, of carved wood and comp-

letely overlaid with gesso and gilded with thin gold-foil, is con-

structed shrine-like in form. The covering, supported by four 

corner angle-posts, take the form of the entablature, i.e. the 

architrave, torus-moulding and cavetto-cornice, with a pent-like 

roof and parapet of solar uraeii. The solar uraeii, backed with 

a screen of linen, are inlaid with lapis-blue, haematite-red and 

turquoise-blue glass: their heads of dark-blue glazed pottery 

have eye-sockets and eyes of copper and glass respectively. The 

The^sic corner-posts, inscribed on both sides with the titulary and 

epithets in laudation of the king, are tenoned and morticed to 

the architrave and the heavy wooden sledge which acts as a ped-

estal.

          The wooden chest under canopy takes also the form of a 

shrine. It has the usual entablature, a pent-like roof, a para-

pet of solar uraeii surmounting the cornice and panelled sides. 

It stands 136 cms. in height and measures some 90 cms. square at 

the base. As its purpose was to conceal the Canopic box, it is 

bottomless and hence tenoned and morticed to the sledge of the can-

opy. Its exterior surfaces are completely overlaid with gesso 

and gilded with a thin gold-foil: the interior surfaces are coated 

with a black resinous material. The solar uraeii of the parapet