TAA i.3.26.4

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          The folding doors were bolted in similar manner as the doors 

of the first innermost shrine, but in addition they were se-

cured by a cord bound and tied to the central pair of staples 

fixed to the meeting styles <for that express purpose>. Affixed 

to the cord was the original/<a> seal. This <original> seal was discovered 

intact, proving that the doors had not been opened since they 

were closed and sealed at the time of the burial of the king.

          The seal of clay, or Nile mud, probably made plastic 

with oil, bears two impressions in relief obtained from separate 

incised seals:- one showing the prenomen of the King surmount-

ing a recumbent figure of Anubis over nine Asiatic captives; 

the other, a counter-seal, showing only the recumbent figure 

of the Anubis animal over nine alien captives. The matrixes 

were evidently engraved (intaglio) upon some hard material, 

like stone or metal, and took either the form of signet-rings 

or ordinary stamp-shaped seals.

          The first device is evidently of the house of Tutankhamen, 

while the second would seem, with little doubt, to be a de-

partmental seal of the necropolis administration.

          Although these seal impressions may be said to be good 

imprints, the perfunctory manner in which the ceremony was 

performed caused much of their details to be wanting. Thus 

the imprints are not sufficiently perfect to give an absolute 

rendering of the matrixes. The imprint of the principal seal, 

however, is sufficiently good to identify the three rows of 

three captives, beneath the King’s cartouche and the Anubis 

animal, as definitely Asiatic (see fig. ...; cf. seal impres-

sions e and i, pp. ... ). The impressions of the counter-seal 

is, unfortunately, not so good. Here the three rows of three 

alien captives beneath the Anubis animal, appear at first 

sight to be all Africans in contr<a>distinction from/<to> the Asiatics