TAA i.3.23.22.recto

                The first (innermost) Shrine – (Plates ……… NO. 239).

          A gilded wooden shrine closely fitted over and completely 

enclosing the stone Sarcophagus.

          Oblong rectangular in shape, this shrine is crowned with 

a barrel-vault roof abutting upright rectangular end 

pieces; an over hanging cavetto cornice with, beneath it, a 

plain roll moulding which is also carried down the external 

angles of the corners of the under-structure. The under-structure 

consists of an all round chief beam or frieze; four corner 

posts; two side and one end panel; a dado; and a sill. 

The front is mostly occupied by two folding doors, which are

hung to the chief beam (or over door frieze), and sill. In place 

of a skirting, the bottom edges of the whole of the under-structure 

are bound with copper, (?) painted a dark greenish-blue (see

p...).

          Its external dimensions – given in ‘Mean Measurements’ – 

are:- at base, 290.5 x 161.5 cents.; extreme edges of the cavetto 

cornice, 309 x 181 cents.; max. height, 192 cents.; height 

from ground to the abutment of cornice, 152 cents.; opening 

of doorway, 131 cents. high, by 121 cents. wide; each door-leaf 130 x 

60 cents. The four sides of the shrine show a batter - i.e. a