"‘The goddess of the marshes’, from Beni Hasan tomb no. 3, of Khnumhotep II, was painted by Carter in 1895. Many of the details reproduced for the published volumes were painted by Carter and Percy Brown in 1895, after the Survey had been put on hold. Carter was still working for the EEF at this point at Deir el-Bahri as chief epigrapher to the excavation directed by Edouard Naville at the temple of Hatshepsut. The image here shows another single hieroglyph of a woman holding a captured wild bird of some kind in her right hand. In this context it represents the name of the goddess Sekhet who dwellt in the marshes and protected those who worked there. The sign is part of an inscription above the scene of Khnumhotep spearing fish, and gives his name and titles/epithets, one of which is ‘beloved’ of Sekhet. Note that Carter has also added his distinctive initials to this drawing." – taken from ‘The Archaeological Survey’ by Christopher Naunton in The EES: the early years (http://ift.tt/1K0zwpt).

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