TAA i.2.3.55

Nov. 5^th Continued

As there is/<a>re no traces of any parts being cut off from
the Coffins, these chips, which are fairly large, must come
from the Inner most Shrine which enclosed the Sarcophagus.
It is again evide {T}hey are again evidence of the <careless> manner the <in which the careless>
undertakers erected those Shrines, mentioned in the preliminary
chapters. Besides these there were a lot of old rags and
a stout piece of wood evidently used as a lever. Under the
head of the bed were fragments of garlands that had
fallen from the Coffins when lowered into the Sarcophagus.

With the/<i>se last stages of the 'dèblaiement' of the Tomb
of Tut.Ankh.Amen, we have <an^sic unique> example, for the first time,
of the funerary customs followed in the burial of one of
Ancient Egypt's Pharoahs^sic:

First a great Outermost Shrine, a Second Shrine over
which drooped a gold bespangled pall, a Third, and a
Fourth Innermost Shrine, all <of which were> nested one within the
other <and sealed>, the last containing enclosing an immense
monolithic quartzite Saca/<rc>ophagus. In the Sarcophagus,
with the lid cemented <to> in its bed, a nest of three great
anthropoid Coffins carved in the likeness of the Osiride King,<.>
and which rested<resting> <They rested> upon a heavy wood gilt bed-like bier,
and which enclosed the Golden Masked Mummy of the
Pharoah^sic <wrapped as though it were that of Osiris himself, <over which an anointment for consecration purposes
had been poured.> the Ruler
of the underworld. x Tut.Ankh.Amen, <Thus there were at least> making eight enclosures in all,
excluding the pall and the bier. plus <putting aside> the pall over the
Second Shrine and the bier supporting that supported the <nest of> coffins.

x The king during his life was called the 'Good god', and
it was only after his death that he attains to the higher title
the 'Great god', and becomes a divinity.