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In order to have space where to store all
the decoration fragments and pottery found during our excavations in the
tomb of Harwa, we started to clear the southern westernmost part of the
subterranean corridor surrounding the tomb in July. After the removal of
the bigger limestone fragments lying on the surface of the debris we
were forced to stop our work because of the discovery of the edges of a
shaft. It was completely hidden by the debris and it had escaped to our
detection until present. We decided to postpone its excavation until
next season because of the lacking of time (it was found just ten days
before the planned date for the works end). The mouth of the shaft is 1
m x 1m wide pointing to a late date of it. It could maybe have escaped
to the thorough activities of the tomb-robbers and, if it demonstrated
to be achieved, could reserve us some nice surprise, maybe allowing us
to better understand the late reuses of the tomb of Harwa. Anyway, the
finding of Greco-Roman funerary objects (shabtys and mummy tags) in the
neighbourhood made during the 2001 season, are not promising in that
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