TAA i.2.1.31

Nov. 18.

left for Cairo.

Nov. 20.

Lord C. and Lady E. arrived Cairo.

Made various purchases in Cairo.

Nov. 21.

Arrived Returned to Luxor

Nov. 22.

Arrived Luxor - Gurna

Ld. C. left Cairo for Luxor.

Nov. 23.

Lord C. arrived Luxor, came over to Gurna and put up at

my house.

Callender re-started uncovering Tomb.

Nov. 24.

Lady E arrived.

Callender reached as far as the first doorway. There proved

to be sixteen steps. 

Now that the whole of the sealed doorway was

laid bare various seal impressions bearing the cartouche of

( [ 𓂀 ] )│ of Tût-Ankh-Amen were discernable^sic {discernible}, more in particular

in the lower portion of the plastering of the doorway where the

impressions were clearest.

In the upper part of this sealed doorway traces of two distinct

re-openings and successive re-closings disclosed were apparent,

and that the sealed seal-impressions first noticed, Nov. 5, of

the Royal Necropolis - i.e., 'Anubis over Nine Foes', had been

used for the re-closing. Here was evidence of at least the

reign of the discov tomb, but its time significance was still a

puzzle, for in the lower rubbish that filled the stair-case

Entrance we found masses of broken potsherds, broken boxes,

the latter bearing the names and protocol of Akhenaten, Smenkh-

Ka-Ra, and Tût.Ankh.Amen, and with what was even more

upsetting a scarab of Tehutimes III, as well as a fragment

bearing the cartouche of Amenhetep III. These conflicting data

led us for a time to believe that we were about to open a

Royal cache of the El Amarna branch of the XVIII^th Dyn. Monarchs_

and that the from the evidence mentioned above it had been

probably opened and use[d] more than once.

Engelbach, the Chief Inspector Antiquities Dept., came and witnessed

the freeing of rubbish from the first doorway. With him came several

of his friends, among others Brunton.

Slept the night in the Valley. Carpenter's commenced upon making

a temporary wooden grill for fixing on first doorway.