TAA i.3.31.2

                                         (2)

gave access to the b/<B>urial Chamber. Horizontal/<Rough> 

timber logs <placed horizontally> supported the dry-masonry above the 

door<,> and thus formed the lintel. When this part-

ition wall was removed to enable us to deal with the 

great sepulchral shrines <in the Burial Chamber>, it was discovered that 

the dynastic workmen <had> had to cut away a large portion 

of the rock of the north-west corner of the antechamber, 

to allow sufficient room for the larger <and longer> panels of 

those shrines to pass into the burial chamber. Low 

down in the west wall of the antechamber is a 'putt'-

hole for a/<the> timber beam used for lowering the saco-

phagus, and in the south-west corner of the room is 

a small somewhat roughly cut doorway leading to the 

a/<A>nnexe – a treasury or store-room – described below (1).

          The Burial Chamber, also an oblong room, has its 

long axis east and west, and its floor level cut 94 

cms. below that of the antechamber. Its dimensions 

are 637 cms. in length, 402 cms. in width, and 363 

cms. in height. Its walls have been completely 

coated with gypsum plaster, which has been/<was> painted 

and decorated with scenes deemed necessary for the 

dead. In the centre stands the yellow quartzite

<The rock ceiling was left plain in its rough and unfinished state, and traces of smoke, as from an oil lamp or torch, are visible upon the north-eastern portion.>

sarcophagus; cut in the four walls are four small 

secret recesses/<niches> for the magica<l> figures, and in the 

north-east corner is a low doorway which leads dir-

ectly into a room called the i/<I>nnermost t/<T>reasury.

          The Innermost Treasury is a simple rectangular 

chamber measuring 475 cms. by 380 cms.<,> and 233 cms. 

high.

(1) See p. 3