TAA i.2.4.49
Referring to the northern end of the chamber Carter mentions boxes, alabaster jars, baskets and wine-jars without further specification; for the southern part he mentions chairs, stools, weapons, throw sticks, bows, arrows, boats and "alabaster amhorae" without further specification. He also mentions "a number of whole and broken wine jars, all having dated dockets of the contents, possibly refering to object numbers 362, 392, 411, 413, 434, 486, 489, 490, 500, 508, 509, 516, 523, 539, 541, 549, 560, 563, 568, 570 and 571.
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carved of ivory; and a fourth, in the form of a imitation folding footstool stool
also of ivory. An unfortunate jolt, <would have caused> the box <to be> dislodged, and they/<se> would
have fallen and smashed into a hundred fragments.
Stacked above the Cabinet box were the deteriorated remains of
several rush-work seats; thrown upon which was a gilt f shawabti-
figure. The rush-work seats fall to pieces at a touch. Under these/<m>,
and at the back next to the wall, were gilded posts of a pavillion {pavilion}, model
boats poised upon black wooden shrine-shaped kiosks, and parts of other
broken boxes.
Towards the northern end of the chamber, thrown on top of a heap
of boxes, more alabaster jars, baskets and wine-jars, were two
large bedsteads - one covered with thick sheet gold. Behind them
was a finely made but damaged decorative casket of curved and
stained ivory: its lid in one corner & the bottom with a leg broken
off in the opposite corner. Here again were a number of whole
and broken wine jars, all having do dated dockets of the contents.
Such was the absolute disorder of some two hundred & fifty objects
heaped several feet deep over the floor of/<from the doorway to> the Northern portion of the
Annexe. As to the state of the Southern part, it defies any
precise narration. It comprised/<was nothing but> a miscellany of chairs;
& bedstead; stools; weapons; such as throw-sticks, bows and arrows;
and a bronze scimitar; boats; alabaster amphorae; a ship
of calcite upon a pedestal, shaped like a pond; in the/vase[s] in the forms
of animals; <and different kinds of> boxes <the highest only> <And different kinds of boxes: the highest one had[?]/<was> badly broken, its sides & bottom
<now> bulging out from the weight <of> the[?] of the faience vases/<vessels> it contained, this which/<and these> were
for[?] wedged together/<poised> on the point of falling.>; one of which <was br> broken, into a dozen pieces/<its sides & bottom falling away> <bulging out>
its contents <from the weight> faience vessels/<of its> details faience vessels <it contained> <it contained> poised on the
point of falling,/<.> All this paraphanaliasic {paraphernalia}, was tumbled
one on the other, to the height of six feet <was> <and was> propedsic {propped} up & stayed from <falling>
by a long white box full of missiles <stretched across the floor opposite the doorway>. so the problem was
how to begin upon their removal/<to arrange the>/<to disenbugh[?] them. the moment you touched one
others began to move & fall. In fact it was/<It became> <like> an humble[?] <a nerve racking game>
game of spillikins.
These details give a very imperfect idea of <the> vandalism that must
have occurred within the/<is> <& the other> chamber. The beautiful workmanship, interest
destroyed if a Even to those us that noted[?] irreparable loss of beautiful