Vyse II · p. 86

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86             OPERATIONS             CARRIED ON AT GIZEH .


( see F , Plate III . , Fig .           1) ,   fragments          of the top of a
mummy -case (inscribed with hieroglyphics , and amongst
them , with the cartouche of Menkahre ) were discovered
upon a block of stone , together with part of a skeleton ,
consisting         of ribs and vertebræ , and the bones of the legs
and feet       enveloped in coarse woollen                       cloth     of a yellow
colour, to which a small quantity of resinous substance
and gum was attached .  More of the board and cloth were
afterwards taken out of the rubbish . It would therefore



     6 These relics are     in the British Museum .            Not being present when
they were found,      I   requested    Mr. Raven , when that gentleman                was in
England , to write an account of the discovery , in order that it might be
published :   --
  " SIR,                                             " London, 11th July , 1838 .
                    " By your request , I send you the particulars of the find-
ing of the bones , mummy -cloth , and parts of the coffin , in the Third
Pyramid .     In clearing the rubbish          out of the large entrance - room , after
the men had been employed there several days , and had advanced some
distance towards the south -eastern corner , some bones were first disco-

vered at the bottom of the rubbish ; and the remaining                   bones and parts

of the coffin were immediately discovered altogether : no other parts
of the coffin or bones could be found in the room ; I therefore had
the rubbish , which had been previously                turned out of the same room ,
carefully re - examined , when         several    pieces      of the   coffin   and      of the
mummy - cloth       were found ;      but in no other part         of the pyramid         were
any parts of it to be discovered , although            every place was most minutely

examined to make the coffin as complete as possible .                    There was about
three feet of rubbish      on the top    of the same ; and from the circumstance
of the bones and part of the coffin being
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                                                             found together          appeared
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      the coffin had been brought              that spot and there unpacked
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                                                     Your most obedient servant
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     To Col. HOWARD VYSE                                                    H. RAVEN
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