that which accompanies the name of Horus in
the texts of the Pyramids (Horshesti).

Very soon we found that what we believed to
be the causeways stopped. The pots lining
them were certainly not older than the XVIIIth
or XIXth Dynasty, for we met with many
painted fragments of that epoch. Occasionally
the lines were interrupted by pockets of coarse
pottery having an archaic appearance, and which
will be described in another chapter. What we
found in great number, and which seems to be
everywhere in the sand at Umm el-Ga'ab, are
thousands of quite small cups and tumblers in red
earthenware, most of which were never used.
Mr. Hall believes that their use was votive, like
that of similar objects in Greece. They may be
of a comparatively late date, since we found two
ostraca, one of Osorkon I., and the other of one
of the Psusennes.

Where the lines of pots stopped were six mud
figures of Osiris lying on a bed of hard sand,
and a bit sandstone with the top of a car-
touche where we read

No previous excavator had touched the ground,
which was attacked towards the tomb of Shesti
(Zer), but the result was most disappointing; we
did not even find small objects like the Osiris of
the previous years, and even in the tomb itself, of
which we cleared again the greatest part, nothing
at all appeared; the result was purely negative.

On the other side of the mound, we cleared
again completely the tomb of Perabsen and a
large space around it, so that we were certain
that there was no other tomb. We found that
the plan published by Prof. Petrie was quite
correct, but in this place our researches were not
as barren as on the other side. We discovered
a certain number of clay sealings, which have
been drawn carefully and published on Pll.
IX.- XI. They mention two kings,

The plan added to the plates shows the amount
of work we have done at Umm el-Ga'ab, the area
which we excavated, and that which we pitted
and trenched in order to make sure that no tomb
had been passed without being excavated. It
seems nearly certain that there is no new tomb
to be discovered in the mound properly called
Umm el-Ga'ab.

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