ABSTRACT
The most unusual item to be described here from KV 46, however, is the gilded openwork 'cage' which was found near the chariot (figs. 1-3; Quibell p. vi) but which had once been on Tjuia's mummy and is there today (CG 51011, Special Register 11) within her third anthropoid coffin (CG 51(07). According to Quibell, Yuia's mummy was equipped with inscribed cartonnage straps to be tied to his mummy (CG 51010); in contrast, Tjuia's cartonnage was a rigid sheath that embraces more than half of the mummy and had divine images as well as texts. I measured the sheath as 1.09 m long (against Quibell's 1.21), the width at c. 28 cm. It is constructed of linen covered by gilded gesso; the bottom surface is smooth while the top is modelled with figures and incised with text. At the head end Nut faces right, her head broken off, kneeling on a collar of gold; her wings are outstretched above dt-and (?)tjd-signs. Vertical and horizontal bands below form six spaces for divine figures; the foot end of the cage (with the text copied by Quibell) is missing. Quibell's column (1) is the central vertical band, (2) the vertical band on the mummy's right, and (3) no doubt the vertical band on its left. The eight texts Quibell gave under 'right' and 'left' are the four columns on the mummy's right, starting at the head end; these are followed by the four on its left. Two anthropomorphic male figures face each other at the head end, identified as Imsety and Hapy; two thermiomorphic figures of Anubis are in the middle, and Isis (on the mummy's right) and Nephthys (on its left) are at the foot end. The figures are fully in the style of Amenhotep Ill's reign, the hieroglyphs beautifully proportioned and executed (detailed like Tjuia's outer anthropoid coffin, 51006, but incised only). Again, we can find a parallel amongst Thtankhamun's mummy trappings.9
