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The circumstances of the discovery brought out to the conclusion that the jar was thrown away in two different moments. On the first shards uncovered in March are visible three fingerprints in one side and the print of a thumb in the opposite side, left by someone who was working with plaster. That evidence points out that the shard was handled by a workman when the jar was already broken. It is highly possible that it was thrown by the same workman to the place where we discovered it. Scattered in an area of a meter, at different levels, we found other pieces of the same jar joining with the first one. The fragmentation of that part of the jar had had to take place when it landed over the surface of the debris following its discarding. Taking into consideration the position of every fragment, it seems that that part of the jar was thrown from East to West. That was confirmed by the discovery we made in June of the other fragments belonging to the same vessel around ten meters eastward. Together with the second group of inscribed shards – not joining with the others – we recovered most part of the neck and some other un-inscribed fragments of the jar (two of the latter were also found in between the two spots of the main discoveries). These evidences, other than confirming the possibility that the jar was thrown from East, allows assuming that the second group of shards has been discovered in the spot from where the workman collected the part of the jar he eventually threw away.
A first reading of the hieratic text painted in red ink was attempted. The group discovered in Spring yielded a list of names, among which Harwa was detected. The group discovered in Summer makes mention of Amun-Re, Nebnesuttauy and Uaset (Fig. 4).
For the moment it is impossible to catch the sense of the inscription. The use of the red ink induces to think that the text can be connected to a magic or execration subject. In this perspective it has to take into account that some fragments of faïence magic balls were uncovered during the excavations in front of the entrance portico in the 2000 season. Lacking any further archaeological evidence, that we hope to acquire with the prosecution of the excavations in the area in front of the main entrance to the tomb, to date it is impossible say more about these findings.

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