Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 135
Continued from p. 35
… the sly tomb robbers. Right down to the floor level the earth is disturbed. The floor rests on a very massive foundation of poros blocks, about 0.40 m thick and over 1.00 m square. It is homogeneous and extends downward in four courses of wall, as seen from the section that resulted from the breaking away of the cross wall and the floor [the robbers' work]. The bottom is, however, not yet reached. At the lower level, where the stones have been removed, poros blocks are found again, namely, in the same wall bedding. The whole can only be understood as a gigantic substructure.
At right angles to Trial Trench I a new one is dug, the so-called Trial Trench II, which runs parallel to and west of the tomb robbers' ditch. From the surface layer down to the floor level, which continues also in this trench, the earth is … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain