Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . 392 Route 4. SAKKARA. Mastaba group of doves, cranes, a mountain-goat, two more antelopes, andto the left, in the corner, four more mountain-goats. Adjoiningthese figures on the left is another figure of Ti (PI. l~). Adjoining the right corner of the S. side of this court (seeabove) is a corridor, formerly closed by a door, and also divided byanother doorway in the middle. It is now entered by a woodendoor, the key of which is brought by the guide. On each side of this Corridor (PI. E) are se
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . 392 Route 4. SAKKARA. Mastaba group of doves, cranes, a mountain-goat, two more antelopes, andto the left, in the corner, four more mountain-goats. Adjoiningthese figures on the left is another figure of Ti (PI. l~). Adjoining the right corner of the S. side of this court (seeabove) is a corridor, formerly closed by a door, and also divided byanother doorway in the middle. It is now entered by a woodendoor, the key of which is brought by the guide. On each side of this Corridor (PI. E) are several series ofbearers of offerings (comp. p. 380), one above the other. On is a niche 9/4 ft. high and 6 ft. wide, containing a stelededicated to the wife of Ti. On the left, on the inner part of thepillar of the doorway, is Ti with his titles; then (between the firstand second doors) the transport of the statue of Ti and personsoffering incense. Hieroglyphics in different places inform us thatthis is the statue of thorn-acacia wood of the deceased Ti, andthis is the statue of ebony, wh
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