TAA i.3.31.4

                                           (4)

          The relative skill in hewing out the passage and 

chambers is on the whole good, but as usual those an-

cient Egyptian masons, to economize labour, have utilized 

wherever possible the natural fissures in the limestone, 

with the result symmetry has often/<in places has> suffered. The 

faulty places in the rock have been/<were> patched up with 

plaster.

          With the exception of the sunken stairway and the 

descending passage, throughout the interior of the 

tomb, the walls, ceilings, and floors have been much 

discoloured by damp arising from infrequent saturations 

that took place in the past. And in many places, 

particularly on the painted surfaces in the burial 

chamber, the walls are disfigured by a fungoid growth 

nourished by that moisture.

          Unfortunately the nomenclature employed for the 

different parts of this tomb in the earlier reports 

is somewhat misleading, and I must now admit that 

from a fear of creating confusion I have <been> reluctant 

to change it. However, a clear conception as is 

possible of the component parts of the tomb is now 

necessary.

          The word 'annexe' should never have been used/<is inappropriate> for 

the small store-room, and the term 'antechamber' <for the large chamber> is 

perhaps in this case ambiguous<,> for although it is a 

room leading to the chief apartment <– the sarcophagus chamber>, this particular 

chamber, as we shall see, may possibly be a combination 

of two separate sections/<parts> in the Eighteenth Dynasty 

tomb-plan.