TAA i.1.memo.7

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top of another, and hence in some disorder. The confusion found however 

was more than this and manifestly had been caused by the contents 

of the chamber having been turned over, as would be the done by robbers 

in search of treasure. The fact that might be used as an argument 

against robbery is that a certain amount of gold had been left. 

With/<In> the poor light however with which the robbers are likely to have 

been provided and in the hurry in which they probably worked and with

the congested state of the tomb it is not surprising that valuable articles 

should have been overlooked as frequently happens in present-day robberies. 

Also if the robbers obtained all they could carry away in one visit and if there 

were solid articles of gold, silver and bronze they may have been satisfied and may 

not have thought it worth while to risk a second visit or they may not have had a 

second opportunity. Moreover the gold left is largely in the form of gold sheeting 

on wood, as on the throne, shrine, etc and not solid gold, and as so many objects 

are merely thinly gilt the robbers may not have recognised the difference 

<and may have thought they were all thinly gilt & not worth robbing> and <also> it 

would have been difficult to get/<remove> the gold off/<from> the objects. Other gold left is in the form of the setting of inlaid jewellery but the intrinsic value of this is not great.

                                                                                                                      A. Lucas
                                                                                                                      Feb: 1923