TAA i.3.5.5

                                                                                                                           (5)

west (front) side are speeches of Isis and Nephthys, the genius 

Hepy only mentioned. On the front and back of the box, above the 

inscriptions, is a winged solar-disc, and on the fore-part of the 

pent-roof a kneeling winged figure of n/<N>ut. These inscriptions ae

are incised and filled in with a black pigment. Embossed upon 

the broad gilded dado is an ornament comprising alternate pairs 

of dad and tet symbols. The wooden sledge, overlaid with gesso 

and gilded with thin gold-foil, has four handles of bronze thickly 

plated with <sheet> silver, they are arranged two on each/<the> north and south 

side<s>.

          The fabric of the linen sheet that coverd/<e>d the box was much 

deteriorated and discoloured to a dark-brown, it was crumpled and 

creased, in places it shew^sic finger-marks and stains from some liquid 

that had been spilt upon it, and it was also splashed with bees-wax, 

which suggest that it had been employed for some purpose before 

it was folded over the box.

          The lid was firmly secured to the box by the following means: 

two gold staples (of copper or bronze plated with sheet gold) in-

serted and plugged into the north and south sides of the frieze of 

the lid, and corresponding staples inserted and plugged into the 

upper part of the north and south sides of the box. To these 

staples a stout cord was tightly bound and sealed with clay which, 

while plastic, was thrice impressed with a seal. The device of 

the seal being the usual recumbent figure of Anubis over nine 

prisoners disposed in three rows of three. This device, that of 

the royal necropolis seal, represents the god Anubis over the nine