TAA i.3.23.30

          The doors were bolted top and bottom with large ebony [ 𓂀 ] 

‘s’-shaped bolts, which slid in/<into> silver coated copper staples. (1) 

These bolts were fixed, one along the top rail of the right-hand 

door, the other along the top edge of the engraved dado of the left-

hand door. Fixed to the centre of the meeting styles were 

two staples, also of silver coated copper, for securing the doors when 

closed with cord and seal. In two cases, actually upon 

the second and third shrines, the original cords and 

seals were discovered intact (see pp. ...); proving that the 

contents within those shrines had never been disturbed since 

the burial of the King.

          As mentioned above, these shrines were constructed of a 

number of separate members and sections which were put

together in the Sarcophagus Chamber. To have done this in 

that very narrow space available between the stone sarcophagus 

and the walls of the chamber, it must have been necessary 

for the staff of workmen to have first placed the various sections 

in correct order round the sarcophagus, leaning them 

temporarily against the walls of the chamber: the members 

and sections of the outermost shrine being introduced first, 

and those of the innermost shrine last. The next logical 

step in that operation must have been first to erect the 

innermost shrine and lastly the outermost. And that was 

apparently what occurred. When dismantling and