. Discovery. Science. Fig. 2.—gilded COUCH WITH PANELLED HEAD-PIECE FOUND IN THE TOMB OF lUYU AND TUYU. THE PARENTS-IN-LAW OF AMENOPHIS III. arriving thither his eyes were uncovered. " The officials then said to him : ' Go before us to the tomb, from which you said: I carried away the things.' The coppersmith led the way to a tomb that had never been in occupation and to the hut of a certain workman of the necropolis, and ejaculated: "Behold the tomb in which I was.'' The officials were not to be put off by what, after all, might be assumed ignorance and stupidity, so he was there an
. Discovery. Science. Fig. 2.—gilded COUCH WITH PANELLED HEAD-PIECE FOUND IN THE TOMB OF lUYU AND TUYU. THE PARENTS-IN-LAW OF AMENOPHIS III. arriving thither his eyes were uncovered. " The officials then said to him : ' Go before us to the tomb, from which you said: I carried away the things.' The coppersmith led the way to a tomb that had never been in occupation and to the hut of a certain workman of the necropolis, and ejaculated: "Behold the tomb in which I was.'' The officials were not to be put off by what, after all, might be assumed ignorance and stupidity, so he was there and then subjected to " a severe examination in the great valley," but " he was not found to know any place there, the two places upon which he had laid his hand. He took an oath of the king, that he should be mutilated by the cutting off of his nose and ears and be placed upon the rack if he lied, saying : ' I know not any place among the tombs, except this tomb which is open, together with the hut upon which I have laid your hands.' '' What then befell the unfortunate coppersmith we are not told, but we may hope that he was subjected to no further " examinations," and was set at liberty. The events of the day concluded with the inspection of another part of the necropolis, wherein the families of the Pharaohs were laid to rest, called " The-Place-of- Beauty," and here all the tombs were found uninjured. A Demonstration by the Western Thebans Regarding the safekeeping of the royal tombs as far and away the most important part of their duties. the head officials of the necropolis held, or pretended to hold, the view that the findings of the commission, and what the vizier had himself discovered as the result of his personal inspection of that very day, afforded a complete proof of the soundness of their administration. Accordingly the same evening they made a crowd of lesser officials and workpeople of the necropolis cross over to the
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