TAA i.3.5.6

                                                                                                                           (6)

races of mankind, called by the Egyptians 'The Nine Bows,' so that 

the significance of the device is that Anubis protects the deceased/<contents>

against every possible human intruder. <(Gardiner, The Tomb of Amenemhet, p.110).>

          The interior of the box is only partially hollowed out, actually 

to the depth of 12.5 cms., but sufficiently to imitate the appear-

ance of four rectangular compartments containing each a jar-like 

receptacle which, in reallity^sic are but cylindrical hollows (13 cms. 

in diam. and 44 cms. deep) excavated in the stone. Unity of plan 

is here hidden under the mask of diversity – instead of a box con-

taining four separate jars, we have a block of stone in which four 

cylindria/<c>al hollows have been made in the place of jars, and its 

superficial surfaces sculptured to give it the appearance of a 

box, of shrine-shape, containing four jars of a common type. Cover-

ing each of the jar-like receptacles is a separate human-headded^sic 

alabaster lid finely sculptured in the likeness of the king, wear-

ing the nemes-headdress and the Nekhebet-Buto insignia upon the 

forehead. The two lids on the west faced East, while the two on 

the east faced West. Placed upright in each of the four jar-like 

receptacles was a mimiature^sic gold coffin wrapped in linen, and over 

them i/<u>nguents had been poured as in the case of the royal mummy. 

The coffins faced in the same direction as the human-headded^sic lids 

covering their receptacles. The unguents poured over them had 

percolated through the linen wrappinggs and solidified at the bot-

tom and thus cementing the coffins intheir^sic receptacles: a powerful 

solvent such as pyridine had to be/<was> applied for many days and as