TAA i.1.memo.4
Handwritten report on the robberies, page 2.
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1. That although there was confusion this was not absolute and some many of
the objects showed evidence of orderly arrangement. Thus (a) the three couches in
the ante-chamber were arranged symmetrically in a row (b) the two statues of the
King were placed one on each side of the doorway leading to the sepulchral hall
(c) a large chest was standing almost exactly in the centre on one of the couches (d)
boxes of food were carefully stacked underneath another of the couches and (e)
most of the objects in the <store> chamber leading off the sepulchral hall show are
arranged in fair order with a fair amount of order.
2. The disorder has been deliberate and not accidental. This is shown
by the following:- (a) objects were overturned (i.e. the carved wood chair and
various boxes. (b) objects were carefully thrust out of the way (i.e. a bed on a
couch in such a manner that the horn of one of the cows supporting the couch
had pass pierced the bed, through which it was sticking; the chariots in a heap
in a corner etc) (c) objects had been deliberately broken (i.e. articles of jewellery,
all the arrows etc) (d) boxes had been opened and their contents roughly
turned over or more probably turned out and carelessly replaced, since
sometimes part of an object was found in one box and part in another, and
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