Dêr al-Baḥarî “ find ” were the fragments of a wooden coffin which had been painted yellow, and a cover which seemed to belong to them. The name of the original owner had been erased and the prenomen of Rameses I. inscribed in its place ; this king’s prenomen is found on the fragments written both in hieroglyphics and in the hieratic character. On a piece of the coffin are the fragments of an inscription, which by the help of other similar documents has been completed, and from it we learn that on the 13th day of the fourth month of the season Shat of the 16th year of the reign of

Sa-Ȧmen, , the mummy of Rameses I. was

taken from his own tomb into that of queen Ȧn-Ḥāpu,

, which was situated near the

tomb of Ȧmen-ḥetep, in peace. This removal was effected by a priest of Ȧmen-Rā called Ānkh-f-en-Ȧmen,

who held several high ecclesiastical offices, and was, apparently, a superintendent of the royal tombs. Near the fragments of the coffin was the unswathed mummy of a man of large and powerful build, with short hair and a black skin ; this mummy is believed by M. Maspero to have been that of Rameses I., and he thinks that its coffin was broken by the various journeys which it had to undergo when the royal mummies were removed to their hiding-place at Dêr al-Baḥarî, and that the mummy itself was stripped and

plundered by the people who were assisting in hiding it from the professional robbers of royal tombs.1