ABSTRACT
The excavations undertaken by Mr. Mond on the eastern slope of the hills of Cheikh-Abd-el-Gournah, in one of the richest of Theban cemeteries of the XVIIIth and XIXth Dynasties have already given several valuable monuments. The material employed by the sculptor is limestone of the kind the inscriptions describe as the fine white stone of Tourah. It abounds in the Theban plain, and although it is too split and cracked in every sense to be of any use for building purposes. The statuette to which it belongs was broken in the middle. The head is fitted into a wig of complicated structure which yields nothing in size to the majestic peruke of Louis XIV. It is of the purest Egyptian type, not the heavy, brutal type which predominates in the Memphian age and among the fellahs today. The fragment which represents her was found at the bottom of a funerary pit, in the court-yard of the tomb of Menna.
