Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-03

sage" says Mr.. Petrie, "does not run
straight into the chamber but slopes
down northward for some distance.
Then a branch passage leads east
ward, the main line continuing ON,
rs blind. The branch passage (still
going eastward) but blank. but the issue
from il is by a large trap-door in the
roof. This trap-door opens into an up
per passage leading north. which pres
entlv turns off TO tho west. Here II again
ends blank and another rooftrap gives
access 10 another upper passage running
further west. This passage ends IN
well leading 20 a short passage south
ward. which ends in another well now
full OF water. This well. | imagine.
must lead to another short passage going
eastward. whence last well would
ascend into the chamber.
The pyramid. as Nr. petrie feared and
expected. has been broken into AMI
plundered long ago. probably in the time
Of the Persian rule in Egypt. y forced
entrance has been made from the second
roof-trap into the sepulchral chamber.
and ANYTHING OF portable value which
that chamber contained has, OF course.
disappeared. The chamber itself, which
is three feet deep III water, IS
an but monolithc. the floor and
four sides, up to a height OF SIX
feet INSIDE measurement. beng hol-
lowed ont of q single block OF sand
stone. The dimensions Of the chamber
are - fees long by : feet vide inside !.
aud Mr.. Petrie estimates the weight Of
the block al from 100 10 300 tons. One
course of stone all rognd supports the
roofing slabs, Of which there are but
three. This chamber contains one large
and one smaller sarcophagus Of the
polished sandstone. roth perfectly plain
aud without inscriptions. A projecting
plntn decorated with panelled orna-
Ineuts rUns round the bsso Of the large
earcoDhagus. The second ssrcOphacus
has been contriyod by the insertion of a
head and a foot slab, between the
large one and the wall. aui this Ea, been
closed over 10y narrow liG. There
were a 10 two boxes OF polished lime
stone ~ the chamber. decorated round
the base with the same psnnellin9 ms tue
large sarcophagus One OF these If broken
ND. A similar kind of stone box, u
may be remembered. was found IN the
pyramid OF leW-Merira sixth dynasty.
which was opened come eight or nlue
ars 40. some fragments OF ala
haeter N,ssels have been recovered from
the water at the chamber, bat those,
ike the sarcophagl aut the boxes,
ars un.uscriooi, with tne excep-
ton ui the fragment of san aIabas
tor vase. which benrs the name ~
Amenomhat itl The wills also, as fer
M Mr.. peiria has been able % eIemln"
them, mr., quite plain, tnus differing
from the pyramids of Onas PepL and
1ota. of the fitch sud sixth dyna'I"S
which ara lined with religious text ot
great snluo and interest That the
great -arcopaagus Is the s1rcoPhagus Oh
Ameuemlat D.. and that the pyramid rs
his pyramid. admits. however. oft no sht-
dow o. Doubt iu the gums 1i the two
temples adjoining tAepyrsWld Nr. fetrio
last YER found fragments Of inscrp-
ti0ns. in which fle names AMI titles ot
thu, king repeatedly occurred. to say
nothing Of classic tradition, which has
consistently assigned the pyramid "nt
tha corner oi the Labyrinth 20 ihe
royal builder of that famous structure.
But for whom WAS the second and smaller
ssrcophaeu9 Constructed ? Mr. rctr'e
suggests that it may have been ior
Ameuemlut ~. who was for several
year assoria,el wi,h bis 'at1er upon the
throne, or for Queen Sehabuotaru, who
succeeded beer brother, Ameucmnt N.
Fi'lrconit.ture probable, hntremem.
beru2 that Dodoru' attributes one ol
tic Havana calcs,, to AmcnemhHt /.
and the other to ina queen, ead iHat b.
further states bow tho revenues derived
t,om tAe fisheries Of La.o A-,.. were