574. LID OF A BOX
(SEE No. 79)
POSITION:
Lying on the floor under a mass of miscellanea in the N.E.
corner of chamber (see photo No. 1148).
DIMENSIONS: -
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37.0
hieratic docket
31.0
ivory studs
knob
incised inscription filled in with yellow pigment reading:
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Description: -
This lid is constructed in exact similar manner to box No. 79
(found in the Antechamber) to which it belongs.
Note the inscription down the central slat was without doubt
original for Smenkh-ka-Re & his wife Mert-Aten. Note the
peculiar reading unusual like the Tut-ankh-Amen objects.
Hieratic docket on one panel (see photo)