TAA i.2.1.152

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round/<against> the walls <on three sides of the chamber,> were the sections

of the great gilt shrines, was offered/<everything>

in cotton sheets of cotton/<cotton> wool

<These concealed for the most part the paint./<,> but

<wall decorations> [on]

one wall, the east, was clear,

& on this, appropriately enough,

there was painted a representation

of the mummy of the King lying

within a shrine upon a sled, and

harnessed to the sled, dragging

it to the place of burial, there

were the figures of the chief

nobles of the land, included among

them <even> the vizier &/<,> the King's

right hand.

By the powerful light of

the great standard lights everything

stood out clear & distinct.

It

It was a lying in state

that we were witnessing.

There had been one last

difficulty in connection with the

opening of the sarcophagus. The