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Tomb 426.
31/3This is the tomb that lies east of and above tomb 422. It is being worked for the time being from the inside. There is no doubt that the tomb has been plundered. The whole gateway is thus torn open from the inside, and the robbers have evidently thought that it led to another tomb. They have hacked themselves out a piece into the dromos, whose hard chavara has not collapsed again, although it had no support from inside. The stones of the gateway lie scattered about on and in the surface layer. The tomb is being cleared square by square according to the following (drawing) Its floor is partly collapsed and stands, as mentioned, in connection with tomb 422. Its roof is cut through from a quarry, so that a smaller hole has arisen through which earth and stones have fallen in. The chamber is extraordinarily regular and … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain