Card/Transcription No.: 256b-06

256,B (Continued) 6



Tutankhamen. (See similar plaques of shape of scarab on mask
256a).
Upon practically all the plaques of the longitudinal,
transverse bands, and those of the ornamental side straps are
numbers on the back to show their order, but it was only in
the case of the plaques of the longitudinal bands that the
order indicated by numbers had been strictly adhered to. 
With all these trappings there was evidence of rough handling
at some ancient time - probably before or during the actual
burial. In fact portions of these trappings, which may have
been surplus pieces, were found on the floor of the passage
and antechamber when we first opened the tomb. These, unless
they are proved to belong to some other decorative object in
the tomb, may have come from the mummy when carried into the
tomb???