TAA i.1.memo.12
Handwritten notes on reopenings and reclosings of the tomb, page 3. Theodore Davis is mentioned on this page.
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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.
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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