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linen garments, incense, oil, and everything beautiful, to the overseer of 

 the farm-lands, Neter-Nekht." Perpendicular texts — (14) "Devotee 

 before Amseth, Neter-Nekht ;" (15) " Devotee before Shu, Neter-Nekht ;" 

 (16) "Devotee before Tefnut, Neter-Nekht ;" (17) " Devotee before 

 Duamutef, Neter-Nekht." 



Explmuitions — (13) This line needs no discussion. (14) Amsetli, 

 a man-headed god, pi'otected the stomach and large intestines. (15) Shu 

 was the god of light, and of dryness ; he may be compared to the Atlas of 

 classical writers, and is often depicted as a crouching man supporting the 

 disk of the sun on his shoulders. (16) Tefnut was the twin sister of 

 Shu ; she represented in one form moisture and in another form the 

 power of sunlight. This goddess kept thirst away from the dead. (17) 

 Duamutef, a jackal-headed god, looked after the lungs and heart. 



Between the first two perpendicular lines of text (Nos. 14 and 15) on 

 the eastern end of the coffin are painted two sacred eyes, and when the 

 mummy was placed in the coffin its face was turned towards these, as 

 it was believed that the deceased would then be able to gaze out of his 

 case and watch the priest making the periodical offerings in the tomb- 

 chamber. Underneath the eyes is depicted a bolted and barred door which 

 is supposed to repi'esent that of a tomb-chamber of the earliest period. 



Translations of lines numbered 7, 8 and 13, respectively, in this 

 article, have already been given by another scholar, as will be seen from 

 the descriptive cai'd in the case, but in certain instances the present writer 

 has ventured to depart from the official readings where he believes that 

 the true values of the hieroglyphs warrant such. The texts shown on the 

 plate were copied from the coffin by the kind authority of the Director of 

 the Australian Museum. 



[The Coffin described by Mr. Eowe is six feet two inches in length, by sixteen 

 inches broad, and in deptli one foot ten and three-quarter inclies ; the bottom is 

 wanting. It was disinterred at Beni-Hasan, Upper Egypt, and obtained through 

 the instrumentality of Mr. John Garstaiig, of the Department of Egyptian Archaeology 

 in the University of Liverpool, England. — (Editor)]. 



