The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
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PLATE XXXVII
THE BODY OF THE FIRST STATE CHARIOT
Built of bent-wood and completely overlaid with burnished thin sheet-gold upon gesso. The margins, etc., are encrusted with semi-precious stones and polychrome glass.
On the front (A) the embossed ornament comprises: the names of Tut-ankh-Amen, a central vertical band of floral design, and side panels of elaborate coil-pattern. On the interior (B) is a panel of cartouches of the king with the symbolical “Union of the Two Kingdoms” to which underneath are bound captives of the North and South. Below is a magnificent frieze of alien prisoners, with arms lashed behind them, kneeling before the all powerful human-headed lion (sphinx) Tut-ankh-Amen. Upon the foot-rail are collars of encrusted gold-work, and at either side at the juncture of the framework of the “body” are highly ornamented bosses surmounted by grotesque heads of the god Bes.
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