TAA i.1.memo.6

Caption
Notes on the robberies
Creator
Date of creation
February 1923
Material
Card
Ink
Measurements
12.6 x 20.5 cm (h x w)
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
Notes

Handwritten report on the robberies, page 4.

Transcription

                                                                                                           IV

had been entered by roughly breaking a hole through the masonry and 

many of the stones that were dislodged fell inwards and were found 

lying on the floor of the annexe, and resting on the top of these stones 

were various articles including several large alabaster jars which can

only have been placed in this position after the breach in the doorway 

had been made and their present position therefore is not the original 

one.

5. A hole large enough to admit a man had been made in each of 

the sealed doorways and also in that of the annexe and with the 

exception of the latter (which was found open) the others had been 

re-closed and re-sealed at a very early date.

There is one fact suggestive of original carelessness and one fact that 

might be used as an argument against robbery. The fact suggestive f of 

carelessness is that the annexe when found was too full of objects for it 

ever to have been possible for them all to have been accommodated on the 

floor and some of them therefore must have been piled originally one on
                                                                                                   (continued)