It might be necessary to cut into a whole section of the rock.

Some day I hope to go back, properly equipped, and attempt it.
"Perhaps you do not know that the entrance to a serdab is almost always very narrow; sometimes a hand can hardly be inserted.

Two things I learned from this serdab.

The first was that the lamps, if lamps at all there had been, could not have been of large size; and secondly, that they would be in some way associated with Hathor, whose symbol, the hawk in a square with the right top corner forming a smaller square, was cut in relief on the wall within, and coloured the bright vermilion which we had found on the Stele.

Hathor is the goddess who in Egyptian mythology answers to Venus of the Greeks, in as far as she is the presiding deity of beauty and pleasure.