TAA i.2.1.151

Page number
3
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 Robert Mond, Bernard Bruyère , John Jacob Astor V and Douglas Derry.

Transcription

                                                             (3

of the French Institute of Archaeology

in Cairo, Dr Robert Mond,

M. Bruyère (?), directing the

excavations of the French School./<,>

Astor Derry ? 

21. persons in all.

 

In the Within the tomb

everything was in readiness.

In the Antechamber a raised

platform had been prepared 

raised high above the level in the

from which the spectators

might sepulchral chamber, <and> from

<this point of vantage>

which the spectators might/<could> see

what the raising of the lid might

disclose could look right down upon

the sarcophagus, sep from which

the spectators could look right

down upon the sepulchral chamber.

There before them was the great

stone sarcophagus with its guardian

goddesses, protective arms and

wings outspread. Ranged/<Stacked> neatly