TAA i.1.memo.12

Caption
Notes on the robberies
Creator
Material
Card
Ink
Measurements
12.6 x 20.5 cm (h x w)
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
Notes

Handwritten notes on reopenings and reclosings of the tomb, page 3. Theodore Davis is mentioned on this page.

Transcription

                                                                                                            III

in which there were fellow objects. In the case of the second 

problem the solution is easy, robbery being indicated by the broken 

fragments of jewellery dropped while passing through the breach in the 

rubble and doorways.
The meaning of the presence of fragments of two broken boxes found 

quite near the last step of the entrance staircase, and far below the

level of the successive breaches, might be that these boxes were used 

to transport object articles to the burial and afterwards cast away.
                                                ___

It must be noted that Theo. M. Davis found some years ago a 

small cache of zeers, in a shallow cutting in the rock situated about 
two hundred yds away, containing materials – <funerary> garlands, linen, and 

pottery, not only bearing the namx[?]/<e> and seals of Tut-ankh-Amen, but 

also the latest known date in the reign of his reign – the year VII

From the nature of the materials in those zeers, now in the Metro. Mus. 

of Art, N.Y., it would appear that they had some relation to the burial