"Signs of burning in the burial chamber and on the mummy parts show, that probably a wooden sarcophagus and parts of the mummy were burnt. In my opinion it was done because burning them and searching the ashes for jeweler was faster than unwrapping the mummy."
Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte Vol 51
435 – 440 A. Batrawi The Skeletal Remains from the Northern Pyramid of Sneferu
There is notation of a smashed sarcophagus in some footnotes of other documents. There is a note that a facility known as the the Varille magazine was on site. Any inventory or relocation of the holdings would be in the records of the SCA (good luck). Alexandre Varille and Klaus Baer documented the work conducted by Abdel-Salam Hussein with all this material in the University of Milan (Varille) and the Oriental Inst. (Baer).As both . Hussein and Varille died shortly after the excavation and much material was not published. Much of the context will be in these archives. Especially Varille's. Citations below.
I.2 Methods of Research: No original documentation from the previous excavations has been available to the author. Documents and photographs related to the missions of Abdel Salam Hussein and Ahmad Fakhry, which were recorded by Alexandre Varille and Klaus Baer, are kept in the archives of the University of Milan (A. Varille) and the Oriental Institute in Chicago (A. Fakhry/K. Baer). The author has not been given access to these archives until now. Therefore, his own documentation of the relief fragments formed the basis of this thesis.
Propositions for Doctoral dissertation, Pyramidový komplex Djedkarea Isesiho v jižní Sakkáře a jeho výzdobný programThe Pyramid Complex of Djedkare-Isesi at Saqqara South and its Decorative Program, Mohamed Megahed 2016 Program of the Study: History Field of the Study: Egyptology Supervisor: Prof. Mgr. Miroslav Bárta, Dr.
"Alexandre Varille, whose library comprises many valuable treasures, such as 16th-century volumes by Mercati and 18th-century volumes by Norden, as well as copious archives containing over 40,000 historic and modern photographs of Egyptian sites;"
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