TAA i.3.31.3
Typewritten notes with annotations regarding the tomb and tomb plan, page 3.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
(3)
The Annexe, a second treasury or store-room, is
somewhat roughly cut, oblong in form, and measures
435 cms. long, 260 cms. wide, and 255 cms. high.
The floor level like the burial chamber is cut 90
cms. below that of antechamber. The hole in
the wall forming the doorway is only 95 cms. broad,
and 130 cms. high. The masons' guide and measuring
marks in red are still visible upon the unfinished
surfaces of the walls.
With regard to the various levels of the tomb:-
reckoning the top step of the sunken stair-
way entrance <as zero>, the bottom step is 300 cms., the lower
end of the descending passage 680 cms., the floor
level of the antechamber 710 cms., and the floor levels
of the burial chamber and annexe <are> 805 cms. below the
level of the bed of the Valley.
All the dimensions given above are 'mean measure-
ment', i.e. the average of several measurements where
the cutting of the tomb is irregular.
Excluding the burial chamber, which was/<has its walls> plastered
and painted, the tomb is of extreme simplicity, there
being no attempt at decoration; the rock-cut surfaces
are unsmoothed, the marks of the final chiselling are
still visible, in fact, three of the chambers and the
passage are just as the masons left them: even here
and there a few flakes of limestone from their chisels
were left lying upon the floors. And in comparison
with the other royal tombs/<hypogea> in the Valley, it/<this tomb this tomb> is the
smallest and <the> most insignificant.