TAA i.2.3.87

(Nov. 14 Continued)     

The result of D^rs Derry and Saleh Bey's study

of the bony frame frame of the Mummy, so far exposed,

has enabled them to give a definite pronouncement

as the to the g age of Tut.Ankh.Amen,/<.> This point,,

controversial question has now been settled and

th/<h>is age definitely fixed between the limits of of 17 to

to^sic nineteen years of age. As soon as the upper parts

of the mummy are examined and even more

precise statement will be possible. Thus as we

have documentary evidence as late as <referring to> the six{th} year

of the reign of Tutankhamen, discovered in the excavation <a cachette>

of/<by> the late Theo. M. Davis in the Valley of the Kings, the King

cannot have ascended to the Throne later than his

thirteenth year - and from data yielded by the certain

discoveries in his tomb, he was then probably merely

Co-Regent and not Sole Monarch.

Nov. 15. 1925

It is now five days since the Examination of the

Mummy was begun, and by this afternoon we have

reach^sic only as far as the neck, having completed the

investigation from the feet thus far.

M. Lacau and the two D^rs arrived 8.30am, when we

began again the Examination, the actual proceedings

commencing by Burton taking photographic records of the

two last objects mentioned yesterday - (i.e. LLL ; and MMM.).

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Below these objects <were> several layers of linen much

decomposed. This exposed an eleventh layer, comprising

one large pectoral in the form of Nekhbet and Buto <a winged>

(L) Nekhbet and (R) Buto combined. They/<is> ornament

was formed of numerous sections cloisonné sections incrusted

with (?) coloured glass. Below this Underneath this pectoral