TAA i.3.23.48
Page 6 of Carter's typescript notes on shrines.
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is worked directly on the solid framing,” and this was the
case with the “gorge” – or over hanging hollow moulding –
of the cavette/<o> cornice<s>. A planted moulding is separately
worked and fixed in position with headless wooden pins.”
The plain roll moulding beneath the cornice and carried down
the external angles of the corners <posts> was in every case planted.
To enable these large structures to pass into the tomb,
they were made up of a number of separate members or sections,
which were put together in the Sarcophagus Chamber. The
roof sections, with one exception (see first shrine, p...),
were tongued to the upper edges of the crowning cornice mem-
bers. The cornice members, in some instances the cornice
and frieze in one section/<piece>, were tongued <& mortised> to the upper edges
of the frieze or panel of the under-structure: their meeting
edges were in each case rebated. The side and end sections
of the under-structure comprise either a frieze, panel, and
dado in one, or panel and dado, or panel and dado in separate
pieces: their horizontal meeting edges being always rebated,
tongued and mortised together; their vertical meeting edges <being>
rebated and tenoned to fit into corresponding mortises in the
corner posts. / The corner posts of the under-structure are
mortised to receive the tenons of the side and end sections, and
they also have stub tenons to secure them to the chief beam <or>
(over door frieze), and sill. (A)
The shrines were stood directly upon the rock floor of
the chamber, and in place of a “skirting” the bottom edges
of the under-structure was/<were> <bound> with copper painted a dark greenish-
blue (see Alex. Scott, vol. iii, p.205).
The reveals of the framework of the doorway – i.e. the
chief beam or over door frieze, the door posts, and sill –
are/<were> rebated to receive the folding doors: the inner edge/<piece> of
<The Rebate was in many instances planted.>