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Excavations in the courtyard of Harwa (2001, 2003) brought to the light two different mud circles, used to produce the mud-bricks to frame the wooden door and a path heading from the rock-carved staircase - used by the workmen of Harwa to enter the courtyard - to the vestibule and surrounding a large pit open in the centre of the East side of the Harwa’s courtyard. In the pit was recovered the base of a sandstone statue of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre. It maybe fell down there during its transport in the courtyard. At the beginning of the works in the Tomb of Harwa (TT 37) other fragments of sandstone statues of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre were found scattered in front of the entrance to the first pillared hall, together with parts of other monuments. Among them are some parts of a large sandstone inscription of Pabasa (TT 279). Smaller fragments belonging to it were also found in the vestibule. They derive from the activities undertaken by MMA Archaeological Mission in the tomb of Pabasa (A. Lansing, MMA Bulletin, Pt. II, July 1920, pp. 16 – 24). This evidence allows dating also the fall of the base of the Mentuhotep Nebhepetre sandstone statue in the pit to the Twenties of the last century.
Fragments of the decoration coming from the tomb of Harwa were also found among the antiquities stored in the vestibule. They probably were found when the MMA Archaeological Mission partly cleared the floor of the vestibule and they were left there. One of the fragments proved to be part of the large scene carved in the South part of the first pillared hall Eastern wall (Fig. 2).

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