Week 4 of our 2024 season has just ended and in the meantime we have made much progress in documenting, consolidating, drawing and photographing wooden objects from the tomb of Ankh-Hor (TT 414). Ladina and Hassan did a great job documenting the last 30th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic coffins from TT 414 which have never been recorded before. This means that all the pieces from the tomb are now at least provisionally numbered and photographically documented. However, the search for joining pieces continues, I was also very successful here this week.

Here are two examples: The painted wooden coffin Reg. 830 is very fragmented; I managed to relocate most pieces and Karima and Mohamed, our conservators cleaned them. However, yesterday I found another piece that we could fit in.

Already in 2023, I documented one fragment of the side of a canopic box, K07/298. In our week 1 of this season, I was very happy to find a joining piece on the left side, at the bottom. However, only this week I relocated the missing corner piece above. All 3 fragments are now joined and fully cleaned and consolidated.

Another task was scanning objects in 3D. Hassan was very busy, with the help of Islam, documenting corner posts of a canopic box. A very challenging piece which required various set-ups!

I have continued to document coffins, including quick 3D scans to document my new joints of Ptolemaic coffins.

This is a nice example – a new assemblage of a coffin lid, very fragmented but reassembled from various provisional numbers – these had been scattered in several boxes and I remain optimistic that I will find more pieces.

Week 5 awaits us and there is still a lot to do.