Contemporary Correspondence, Diaries & Notes

On the other side of the path, and slightly to the north of Tomb 29, we discovered another burial place (No. 53). This consisted of a square shallow shaft, leading down to a large room. The tomb had been plundered, and nothing was found in the chamber except an ostrakon of one "Hora, chief scribe in the' Place of Truth." In the rubbish of the shaft were found several ostraka.

The remains of rough workmen's huts were near by, and had heen built over tlie mouth of the tomb, which had, however, been since plundered; and built into the walls of one of these we discovered several ostraka and trial pieces, most of which had suffered considerably from exposure to the elements.

Davis, Theodore M., Gaston Maspero, Edward Ayrton, Georges Daressy and E.H. Jones.  The Tomb of Siphtah (Theodore M. Davis' Excavations, Biban el Moluk, 4).  London, 1908. 18-19.