TAA i.1.memo.14

Since I have been aboard this boat I have been thinking 

over a question which though perhaps not of capital 

importance is still is of a certain interest.
I refer to the question of the period at which the tomb 

was plundered & reclosed & who were the plunderers. 

The papyrus giving us an account of the examination

the re-tidying & resealing of the Royal Tombs 

is probably of the epoch of Rameses 9. 

Now above our Tomb were workmans huts, of course 

they may have been of a later date than Rameses 6 

but that is hardly likeley^sic. On the other side of 

the causeway leading to Rameses 6 are more huts 

quite possibly <& probably> of the same epoch. Now The huts you 

uncovered on the Ex[?]/<E+> side bore no signs of having 

been disturbed, as xxx[?] neither do the ones of the W<+> side. 

These 2 sets of huts were probably used by the 

workmen employed in cutting out Rameses 6. 

It certainly seems strange that they had no idea 

of the fact that a king was buried just below their 

feet. I therefore come to the conclusion that the 

entrance of the robber was effected at a time 

anterior to Rameses 6 & probably a good while before 

for the virgin undisturbed condition of the huts over
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+ For convenience I take the side entrance <into Valley> side from Luxor as being 

the E side & the side going up towards Thotmes III as being W

The Causeway is the path we have left leading to Rameses 6.