TAA i.2.1.87

1^st of Dec.

Fixed wooden screen in front of/<between> opening to Sepulchral

Chamber and Antechamber to protect Shrine while

demolishing the partition wall.

Commenced pulling down partition wall. The top part

to level of wooden lintel found to be hollow, and comprised

dry stone-work of splinters of limestone and flint boulders

plastered only on the outer faces of the wall.

Prepared tray of bran to receive the painted portion of

the partition wall on inner side.

Lucas arrived by morning train from Cairo, but did

not come up go up the Valley.

At Laboratory Mace and Bethell having cleaned

the body of the Second golden chariot were working upon

fragments of harness Etc belonging to do .and others.

Scott who should have arrived at Luxor today deferred

his departure from Cairo until tomorrow Sunday

evening - he should arrive Monday 3^rd.

We now have three Native Inspectors, br/<n>amely

Shaban Eff, Ibreheem Eff and Abbadir Eff, besides

the Chief Inspector Englebach^sic {Engelbach}, watching us, on

behalf of the Eg. Gov. I imagine to see if we do not

take anything - this is amusing especially in the

case of Abbadir Eff. whose at antecedents are certainly

not of the best!

2.

Demolished the greater part of the partition wall at end of Ante-

chamber; leaving only the lower part of the two door jambs

to be completed on Wednesday. The structure comprising dry stone

work filled in with rubble & dust was of astonishing bad

workmanship. In each of the jambs were wooden boards on

both inner and outer faces. They do not seem to have been

necessary and were probably the cause of certain shrinkage

visible at the top of the wall. On the west side, in the

rock wall of the Antechamber where it ends terminates,

the commencement of a cutting was revealed, while taking

away the partition wall, which appears to have been made

to enable ingress of the long cornice pieces of the Outer Shrine.

This would suggest that the parts of that shrine were

taken in before the construction of the partition wall. and

that .

The decorated portion of plaster on the inside face of the West

door-jamb was removed with fair success; sufficiently good

to reconstruct the scene (there on) for eventual record.

Sir John Marshall Dir. of . Antiquities, India, called and

visited both the Tomb and the Laboratory. He appears to be an

interesting man. Have asked him to Lunch Wednesday