TAA i.3.22.58
Typewritten and annotated report on the seal impressions, page 13.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
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When dealing with these/<these> very imperfect seal impressions, it is
possible that in the case of seal impressions <types> (E) and (H), by their
being so similar in device, they may have been <composed[?]> confused in identi-
fication. However, <I should note,> among all the impressions <of this class> upon the original
closings of the four doorways, I have never been able to find/<not succeeded in finding> an impression that could be identified with absolute certainty as
seal (H). All t/<T>he impressions on the original of the type (E & H)
on the original closings that could be in/<d>entified with certainty,
<always> proved to be imprints of seal (E). Under such circumstances it
seem would seem reasonable to suppose that they were all imprints
of seal (E), and that seal (H), found repeatedly on the subsequent
l/<c>losings, was only employed when/<by> the officials <who> reclosed the breaches
made by the robbers. To strengthen this assumption/<supposition>, the seven
seals (A to G), undoubtedly employed during the original closing
of the tomb at the time of internment, are all <special seals,> private/<personal> in nature: a
they either bear the king’s prenomen or refer to him <indirectly>.