In one corner was a bronze jar, Kenkenes
examined it and found it contained cocoanut-oil for burning.
"Of a truth this is intervention of the gods," he commented, a little
dazed, but filling his lamp nevertheless.
Ahead of him was a black opening leading into the second chamber. He
stooped, and entering, held the lamp above his head. He cried out, and
Rachel came to his side.
In the center of the room was a stone sarcophagus of the early, broad,
flat-topped pattern. In one corner was a two-seated bari, in another a
mattress of woven reeds. Leaning against the sarcophagus was a wooden
rack containing several earthenware amphorae; on the floor about it was
a touseled litter of waxed outer cerements torn from mummies. All
these things they observed later. Now their wide eyes were fixed on
the top of the coffin. At one time there had been a dozen linen sacks
set there, but the mice and insects had gnawed most of them away. The
bottoms and lower halves yet remained, forming calyxes, out of which
tumbled heaps of gold and silver rings, zones, bracelets, collars and
masks from sarcophagi--all of gold; images of Isis in lapis lazuli and
amethyst; scarabs in garnets and hematite, Khem in obsidian, Bast in
carnelian, Besa in serpentine, signets in jasper, and ropes of diamonds
which had been Babylonian gems of spoil.
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