. I"m I—GILDED AND INLAID BOX FOUND IN THE TOMB OF lUYU .\.>fD TUYU. THE PAREN'TS-IN-I<.\W OF AMENOPHIS III. polis. The commission, which made this tour of in- spection on the iSth day of the month Hathor, found that all the tombs of the nobles and lesser personages enumerated by Peser had been broken into, and the report drawn up by the commission tells us that "the thieves had pulled the occupants (of these tombs) from their coverings and coffins, they (the mummies) being thrown on the ground ; and that they had stolen their articles of house-furniture (cf. Figs, i, 2, and 3)
. I"m I—GILDED AND INLAID BOX FOUND IN THE TOMB OF lUYU .\.>fD TUYU. THE PAREN'TS-IN-I<.\W OF AMENOPHIS III. polis. The commission, which made this tour of in- spection on the iSth day of the month Hathor, found that all the tombs of the nobles and lesser personages enumerated by Peser had been broken into, and the report drawn up by the commission tells us that "the thieves had pulled the occupants (of these tombs) from their coverings and coffins, they (the mummies) being thrown on the ground ; and that they had stolen their articles of house-furniture (cf. Figs, i, 2, and 3) which had been given them, together with the gold, the silver, and the other ornaments which were in their ; However, so far as the royal tombs were concerned, the state of affairs was apparently not so serious as Peser had maintained. Of the ten kings' tombs inspected by the commission, one only is stated in the report to have been plundered, while two had been unsuccessfully tunnelled into by the robbers. However, the plundered tomb, that of the Thirteenth-Dynasty Pharaoh, Sebekemsaf, and his wife Nubkhas, had been completely looted. Luckily for him, no doubt. Fewer 6 managed to arrest the robbers of Sebekemsaf's tomb, and a list of their names was submitted to the vizier. What the Thieves found in Sebekemsaf's Tomb Accordingly on tlie day, the igth of Hathor, the vizier Khamwese and a number of his subordinates examined the eight men accused of this crime, "and the manner in which the thieves had laid their hands upon the king and his royal wife was ascertained.'' A portion of their full confession, dragged out of them, no doubt, after a severe beating and under threats of further torture, is preserved to us in a fragmentary document in the Amherst Collection. The descrip- tion of how the robbers broke into the tomb is un- fortunately lost, the first really intelligible passage describing their coming upon the sarcophagus of the queen within the
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