TAA i.2.1.150

Page number
2
Caption
Handwritten account of the lifting of the sarcophagus lid
Creator
Date of creation
12th February 1924
Material
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
18.0 x 10.5 cm (h x w)
Notes

Several people are mentioned on this page, including Howard Carter, Mohammed Zaghloul, Pierre Lacau, Rex Engelbach, Ibrahim Effendi, Eff Shaaban, Shaaban Effendi, two (unnamed) Egyptian inspectors of the Antiquities Deptartment, Edward Harkness, Albert Lythgoe, Herbert Winlock, Norman Davies, Percy Newbury, Henry Breasted, Alan Gardiner and Georges Foucart.

Transcription

                                                                                                                        (2

<At> <the appointed hour of> Three o'clock was the time/<those who were to>

fixed for the ceremony, and/<be present had> all

assembled & removing our coats we

filed down the sloping passage into

the tomb. Twenty <two?> in all

Moh Zaghloul, representing the/<Under Secretary of Public Works>

Minister of Public Works, M. Lacau,

Director general of the Service

of Antiquities, Mr Engelbach, Chief

Inspector of Antiquities in Upper

Egypt, Ibrahim      Effendi Habib

M. Shaaban Effendi/<Moh. Eff Shaaban> <the Mudir of the Prov[ince]>, two Egyptian

Inspectors of the Antiquities Dept.

These represented the government.

In addition to the ordinary members

of the staff there were present,

Mr Harkness, Mr Lythgoe, Mr

Winlock Mr Davies, Mr N.

Professor Newbury <of the University of Liverpool,> Professor Breasted

of the University of Chicago, Dr

Gardiner, M. Foucart, Director