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{Dec. 1. 1927, continued}

have noted, everything in utter confusion, and there was not a vacant

inch of floor space. It is quite evident, too, that the plunderers had

turned everything ransacked everything, even deliberately thrown things about,

and that the present state of the chamber was precisely that in which they had

left it, but/<yet> as to any original/<real original> order of things <originally> there seems to be little trace.

So far we have not made any attempt to enter the chamber, but have

contented ourselves with taking stock from outside. When we commenced clearing

it quickly became manifest that had been the case. As to how much <order the[re] was>

the damage was done, and how much was stolen, we shall gather some idea

in due course.

It seems evident that when the thieves directed their attention to

this Annexe they knocked a hole through the masonry, blocking the

doorway, sufficiently large to enable them to pass through, and then

they overturned and ransacked its contents as thoroughly as the limited

space and then time allowed, throwing objects about indiscriminately

regardless of whether they broke or not. M^r Harry Burton's photographic

records, made under the most difficult conditions, show the result -

about as systematic as <the result of an exploding bomb> an bomb explosion or an earthquake.

It was in the last days of November, 1927, that we were able to

begin this final stage of the déblaiement. It took us two days of

strenuous work to clear the way to the Entrance of the Annexe, the

whole of that end of the Antechamber being occupied by the large

Roof-sections of the great Sepulchral Shrines that covered the Sarcophagus,

dismantled the first season. They had to be shifted back to the

Northern end of the Antechamber so as to allow sufficient room for

access to and fro as well as <for> transport.

The small doorway leading into the Annexe, 125 cms high, by 90 cms

wide, is cut in the Southern end of the west wall of the Antechamber,

about a metre from the/<its> S.W. corner. This opening was blocked up

with rough stone <dry> masonry, plastered over flush with the surface of

the walls, and while wet it received numerous impressions of

various/<5> sepulchral seals of the King. Namely:   .   ./<⁽¹⁾>   .   .

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<Breasted(with exception of E)>

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C. "The King of Up. and Low. Eg., Neb-Khepru Re, who spent his life

fashioning (that's mostly images of) the gods, that they might give to him

incense, libations, and offerings every day."

D. "Neb-Khepru-Re, who fashioned (that is made images of) Osiris and

built his houses as in the beginning".

E. The Recumbent Jackal over Nine prisoner foes. <"Anubis (probably to be understood as the king as in the case [or care? of Osiris), Triumphant

over the nine subject peoples".

G. "Their overlord, Anubis (that is the king), triumphant over the four captive peoples"

H. "Neb-KhepruRe - Anubis, triumphant over the Nine captive peoples."

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The lower part of this masonry was forced inwards by the plunderers,