fastening of this necklace was formed of the heads of two gold hawks, the details of the heads being worked out in blue enamel.  Both weapons and amulets were found among the jewels, including three gold flies suspended by a thin chain, nine gold and silver axes, a lion’s head in gold of most minute workmanship, a sceptre of black wood plated with gold, daggers to defend the deceased from the dangers of the unseen world, boomerangs of hard wood, and the battle-axe of Ahmosis.  Besides these, there were two boats, one of gold and one of silver, originally intended for the Pharaoh Kamosu—­models of the skiff in which his mummy crossed the Nile to reach its last resting-place, and to sail in the wake of the gods on the western sea.

[Illustration:  136b.jpg THE JEWELS AND WEAPONS OF QUEEN AHHHOTPU I. IN THE GIZEH MUSEUM]

     Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Bechard.

Nofritari thus reigned conjointly with Amenothes, and even if we have no record of any act in which she was specially concerned, we know at least that her rule was a prosperous one, and that her memory was revered by her subjects.  While the majority of queens were relegated after death to the crowd of shadowy ancestors to whom habitual sacrifice was offered, the worshippers not knowing even to which sex these royal personages belonged, the remembrance of Nofritari always remained distinct in their minds, and her cult spread till it might be said to have become a kind of popular religion.  In this veneration Ahmosis was rarely associated with the queen, but Amenothes and several of her other children shared in it—­her son Sipiri, for instance, and her daughters Sitamon,* Sitkamosi, and Maritamon; Nofritari became, in fact, an actual goddess, taking her place beside Amon, Khonsu, and Maut,** the members of the Theban Triad, or standing alone as an object of worship for her devotees.

     * Sitamon is mentioned, with her mother, on the Karnak stele
     and on the coffin of Butehamon.

     ** She is worshipped with the Theban Triad by Brihor, at
     Karnak, in the temple of Khonsu.

[Illustration:  141.jpg THE TWO COFFINS OF AHHOTP II.  AND NOFRITARI STANDING IN TUB VESTIBULE OF THE OLD BULAK MUSEUM.]

     Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-
     Bey.

She was identified with Isis, Hathor, and the mistresses of Hades, and adopted their attributes, even to the black or blue coloured skin of these funerary divinities.*

* Her statue in the Turin Museum represents her as having black skin.  She is also painted black standing before Amenothes (who is white) in the Deir el-Medineh tomb, now preserved in the Berlin Museum, in that of Nibnutiru, and hi that of Unnofir, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurnah.  Her face is painted blue in the tomb of Kasa.  The representations of this queen with a black skin have caused her to be taken for a negress, the