CHAMBER IV

The doorway from chamber III opens up into chamber IV in south end of the east wall, see the mastaba plan opposite.

The entrance passageway from chamber III opens into this very small chamber or magazine, measuring 1.15m. east-west by 1.65m. north-south. All of the walls have been preserved to a height of about 2.80m.
A stone bench is constructed against the whole width of the north wall, having a depth of 0.55m and standing 0.85m high. Please forgive whoever left the black plastic bag on the far end of the bench. The top is made of one large and two smaller limestone slabs, each being 0.12m thick. This is supported at each end by two irregular stone pillars of 0.20m width, thus leaving a vacant niche beneath the bench. The top still has remnants of white gypsum, the supporting pillars were coated with a pinkish plaster and retain small patches of black paint.

DOORWAY FROM CHAMBER III

Entry to this chamber is made through the doorway located at the southern end of the west wall (see ), with a stone threshold, 0.10m above the normal height of the mastaba floor. The passageway measures 1.70m high by 0.67m wide with a length of 0.80m. In the west wall of chamber III is yet another of the small holes, cut through the corner of the doorway to emerge on the north thickness, located just below the height of the border bands (see the chamber III views and ).
From the doorway, a step down of 0.10m leads to the recess intended for an internal door (see ). This recess is 1.88m in height by 1.12m wide, having a depth for the actual door of 0.25m. Cut into the ceiling at the south end of the recess is a small circular socket, but not deep enough for a wooden block to hold a door pivot. Below, in the floor, is the other pivot hole, currently filled gypsum plaster.
The red and yellow borders of the entry thickness walls are positioned lower than those of chamber III (see the left-hand side of the , where a small part of the upper red border still exists below the uncoloured north thickness scenes). This provides a taller space, just enough for the two registers, which contain the pictorial decoration of the entrance. These are again surrounded on both sides and the top with an area for a coloured border, although it shows no sign of colour. This leaves an area of 0.7m in width by 0.6m in height. The bottom register is taller than the combined height of the upper one and the separating descriptive text band.

The scenes and inscriptions of both thickness walls are identical.
Like the decoration of the walls of chamber IV, those on the door thicknesses are in shallow incised relief and of a rather poor quality and with very limited modelling. Each thickness is dominated by the figures of four men pulling a sledge holding two large oil containers, progressing into chamber IV.
The inscription above them reads:"Dragging sTi-Hb-oil and Hknw-oil".
Eight jars are depicted in the register above these, possibly containing the traditional oils, although no names are inscribed.

THE ACTUAL CHAMBER

This very small chamber probably represents a storeroom, with the common bench for the placement of objects. This type of chamber was common in many tombs from the period. As in chamber III, the top of the stone table is below the height of the expected colour bands, the bottom limit of the wall decorative scenes. All the walls were decorated and have scenes showing offering bearers bringing objects, differing in many cases from those usually carried by the porters to offer directly to tomb owner. These items would be intended for storage, for use in the afterlife. Items included in the scenes are chests, jewellery, granaries and fruit stores. There would be no way that all of these items could fit into the small space of this chamber, thus their inclusion would have been symbolic. The quality of the decoration, like that of the entry, is in shallow incised relief and of a rather poor quality and now shows no sign of colour. Being such a small chamber, it is obviously difficult to obtain full view photographs of any of the walls.

EAST WALL

The entrance to the chamber opens in the southern part of this wall. The decorated surface is divided into five registers, the lower two being to the left of the entrance. These together with the one above, show porters progressing away from the entry, in an anticlockwise direction, towards the figure of Nikauisesi on the west wall.

The bottom register shows four men, each carrying two long linen rolls (see ) and is described as: "Bringing royal linen and offerings which the king gives for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, Nikauisesi".
The second register depicts four offering bearers carrying jars. Their label, which extends above the doorway, reads: "Bringing ointment which is brought as offerings which the king gives for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, Nikauisesi, his beautiful name, Isesy". This is the only instance where the beautiful name of Nikauisesi is preserved in the tomb.
The third register has four, or perhaps eight, men transporting large chests with the aid of horizontal poles fixed to the bottom of the chests. Above them, the text states the names of the items contained, the beginning of which is now missing (probably "Bringing a chest of") and also the end, which would have included the identity of the contents of the right-most chest: "… sweet ointment, a chest holding incense, a chest of…".
The fourth register shows, on the left, some large vessels (nearly lost). In the centre are some largely portrayed items of jewellery, consisting of a strap and pendants followed by two more large vessels. At the right, the register terminates with some smaller vessels resting on a stand. The inscription above reads: "Bringing gold objects and bringing sTi-Hb-oil for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, Nikauisesi".

The top register

retains the lower remains of jars and stands. The descriptive text is totally lost.

SOUTH WALL

The decorated surface is divided into five registers. The bottom three show porters, again progressing away from the entry, but this time in a clockwise direction, but again towards the figure of the deceased on the west wall.

The bottom register shows seven men carrying vases of different shapes. Above them is written: "Bringing the best of the precious things, which are brought as offerings, which the king gives for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, Nikauisesi".
In the second register seven men carry small sacks in both hands. The contents of these are identified in the accompanying text: "Bringing incense of the offerings which the king gives for the hereditary prince, the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, Nikauisesi".
The third register displays five men, two men carrying a chest and the other three two bowls each. The inscription above them reads: "Bringing a chest of natron for the hereditary prince, the count, the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, Nikauisesi".
The fourth register shows three chests and some jars. The inscription above them is partly preserved: "…, a chest of natron of the best…".

Of the top register

only the lower part is preserved, showing the bases of some vessels.

WEST WALL

Here, the tomb owner stands on the right-hand side of the wall. This is his only appearance in this chamber and it is to he whom the porters are all walking. He wears a shoulder-length wig, a beard, a collar and a pointed kilt, he wears nothing on his feet (see ). He holds a sceptre in his left hand and a staff in his right. Above him are six vertical columns and one horizontal line of text which read: "[Bringing] the gold, which is brought as offerings which the king gives | for…, he who is in this chamber, the keeper of Nekhen, the lector priest, | the sole companion, the embalmer of Anubis, the… of Anubis, | the sole companion, the keeper of the head ornaments, the lector priest, | the honoured one before Osiris, lord of Abydos, | the honoured one before Anubis, lord of burial, | the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, Nikauisesi".

The tomb owner, with the text above his head, faces five registers. The bottom three are again of offering bearers walking towards the figure of Nikauisesi. The registers above are of offerings.

The bottom register depicts six men, each carrying two long linen rolls. Above them is written: "Bringing royal linen, which is brought as offerings which the king gives for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, Nikauisesi".
The second register shows five men carrying long jars with curved spouts. The scene is described as: "Bringing libation-vases (?), which are brought as offerings which the king gives for Nikauisesi".
In the third register, five men presenting jewellery are depicted with the legend: "Bringing gold objects for the treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, Nikauisesi".
The fourth register displays two stands with large neck-collars on top. At the left-hand side are three tall jars. The text above, of which only the beginning has survived, reads: "Bringing gold objects for…".

The top register

has almost totally disappeared.

NORTH WALL

Like the other walls in this room, the north wall is divided into five registers, above the bench which was described above in the introduction to this chamber. Between the bottom register and the top of the bench is the space for the two colour bands and a small region of the dado, none of which now have (or perhaps never had) any of the colour.

The bottom register depicts six storehouses, which have the same shape as granaries, except that some contain other items than grain (see ). The name of each item contained is written, accompanied by a variant of the hieroglyph for corn-measure above the quantity (the hieroglyph for 100) enclosed in a granary hieroglyph . The items are (from left to right) : "iSd-fruit, |nbs-fruit, | onions, | barley, | wheat, | everything (else?) ".
The second register is reserved for wines, with two very large jars of different shapes and two others on a sledge being pulled by four men (see ). The inscription above reads: "Dragging wine, HAmw-wine, snw-wine and imt-wine".
The third register shows six stylistic heaps of different fruits. Above each heap is the name of the fruit, followed by the number of stored measures (note that here the 'corn-measure' hieroglyph is used just for the word 'measure'). The first three heaps again record the figure 100 written inside a granary sign, while the last three heaps contain 20 measures each, indicated by the two hieroglyphs for 10. The fruits are named (again from left to right) in the line above, each separated by the continuation of the line between each heap (only the second name is lost) : "grapes, | |white and green sxt-fruits, | figs, | carob-beans, | nbs-fruit".

The fourth register

depicts jars containing the traditional oils, with their names inscribed above as follows:

"sTi-Hb-oil|Hknw-oil, |sfT-oil, |nXnm-oil, |twAwt-oil, | best cedar oil, | best Libyan oil".

The top register

, with its objects, is almost completely lost.