TAA i.1.memo.15.recto

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Notes on the robberies
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25.0 x 19.3 cm (h x w)
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the tomb would rather suggest that the fact of a 
king being buried there was totally forgotten
xxx[?] has[?] Another point is that in the Papyrus 
the room/<tomb> of King Tut.. is not mentioned

he certainly was there at that epoch. Is it not 
quite fair to imagine that because of his semi 
heretic reign he was ignored & forgotten

Khuenaton {Akhenaten} was hidden in close vicinity & somehow 
I fear that Smenkhara is possibly not far away. 

All three Kings here either heretics or at some time 
of their reigns had heretic leanings
Is it not possible that Tut.. made his tomb 
& decided that Khuenaton {Akhenaten} & Smenkhara should 
repose near him. Evidently owing to the disrepute 
they had fallen into he could not give them either 
a 2nd Royal Tomb or gorgeous furniture, but possibly 

he secretly still had feelings of reverence for the 

Aton worship & therefore for his predecessors & decided 

that they should be placed in a spot of relative safety. 

Possibly whilst Ay was on the throne exercising a very 

precarious rule the tomb <& caches> remained gx[?]/<ua>rded & still 

untouched, but when Horemhab came to the throne 

& founded a new Dynasty such scruples vanished. 

The priests of the cemetery then helped themselves 

to all the objects in gold, silver & bronze