TAA i.2.1.104.1
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
Improvised hoisting machine made of 8" X 3" timber
for lifting the roof sections of the shrines
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Long beams along
whole length of Chamber
Made of 2" ⅛ wood, covered with gesso and overlaid with thin gold foil.
Roof section. Weighing several hwt {hundredweight, same as cwt}
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wood and copper tongues (the copper tongues inscribed with the king's name)
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- tongues on ends of side panels
showing that the shrines have been
wrongly placed in the Sepulchral Chamber.
(As far as it is now able to tell the King
and sarcophagus have been orientated correctly).
S. E. Corner