TAA i.3.27.5
Annotated typewritten report on fourth (innermost) sepulchral shrine, page 3. Carter uses the correct object number (239) for this shrine but refers to it as the "first outermost shrine".
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© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
<Fig. … makes the construction of the front-section of[?] quite
clear.>
3
The back end sections differs slightly in construction
from the side members/<sections>. Although the chief beam or frieze,
the panel, and the dado, are tenoned and mortised to the corner
posts in similar manner, their vertical end clamps form part
of the styles of the corner posts (see fig. ..).
The front section comprises a chief beam or over door frieze;
a sill; and two corner posts. The front faces of the corner
posts which act as the door jambs are mitred and stub tenoned
to the chief beam, and they <are> secured to the sill by a single
stub tenoned square joint. The reveals of front framing/<ework> thus
formed are rebated to receive the doors (ss fig. ..).
The doors are of the simplest king/<d>. They consist of two
broad vertical panel boards clamped with a top and bottom rail,
a hanging and a meeting style. The framing members are tenoned
together, and the panel boards are joined up with rebated glued
joints strengthened at intervals by dowels. The doors are
hung on top and bottom pivots, which are inserted into corres-
ponding sockets sunk into the reveal of the chief beam and
sill. The pivots are merely the projecting horns of the hang-
ing style, rounded off into suitable pivot form. The butt
edges of the doors are rounded so as to enable them to swing
freely, and the meeting styles are rebated to prevent obser-
vation through the joint (see fig. ..). These folding doors
were closed by means of two ebony bolts which slide into sil-
ver coated copper staples. These <bolts> are fixed, one along the
top rail of right hand door, the other along the top edge of
the engraved dado of the left hand door. Fastened to the
centre of the meeting styles of the doors are two silver coated
copper staples. These were/ <intended> for securing the doors when closed
with cord and seal (see second shrine p. ...).