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We thank the Museum for its assistance in documenting the surviving fragment." }, { "id": "bm6647", "title": "British Museum · wooden coffin EA6647", "kind": "institution", "status": "Official catalogue extract checked; full page unavailable", "citation": "British Museum, collection object EA6647, registration number 1838,0113.2, “coffin”.", "summary": "Wooden anthropoid coffin, reconstructed from fragments; the museum catalogue dates it to the 26th Dynasty.", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA6647", "date": "1838 / current catalogue", "note": "Separate object: not the lost rectangular stone sarcophagus. The object number, short description, acquisition year and catalogue period have been checked against the indexed official museum entry. The complete live object page was inaccessible.", "source_group": "catalogue", "document_type": "Institutional catalogue", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "lrf", "title": "Beatrice · ship survey, 1835", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Survey Report for Beatrice, 21 July 1835, LRF-PUN-LIV573-0032-R; Nielsen (2024), p. 318, note 16.", "summary": "The official archive catalogue result identifies the survey; the complete scan has not yet been independently consulted for this archive.", "url": "https://heritage.lrfoundation.org.uk/collections/vessel/7803", "date": "1835", "note": "Catalogue identity located; the original survey still requires verification. The narrative therefore attributes the construction year, tonnage, registration and assessment to Nielsen.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Ship survey", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "fo141", "title": "Foreign Office · instruction to Campbell", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "The National Archives, FO 141/4, Consular No. 3, 17 February 1838.", "summary": "Instruction concerning transport; cited by Nielsen, pp. 316–317, note 12.", "date": "1838", "url": "https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=FO%20141%2F4", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "fo142", "title": "Foreign Office · Campbell on the firman", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "The National Archives, FO 142/10, Consular No. 12, 18 May 1838.", "summary": "Campbell reports an export authorisation and a transport contract; Nielsen, p. 317, note 14. The firman itself is not included.", "date": "1838", "url": "https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=FO%20142%2F10", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "minutes38", "title": "British Museum · acceptance of the donation", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "British Museum, Board of Trustees Standing Committee, vol. 16 (1838), 4697–4698; meeting of 27 January 1838.", "summary": "Decision and £150 allocated for transport; reported by Nielsen, pp. 315–316, note 11.", "date": "1838", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/resources/library-and-archive", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "minutes39", "title": "British Museum · insurance payment", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "British Museum, Board of Trustees Standing Committee, vol. 17 (1839), 5125; meeting of 29 June 1839.", "summary": "Receipt of a net £148 from Francis & Co.; Nielsen, p. 323, note 38.", "date": "1839", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/resources/library-and-archive", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "malta36", "title": "Malta · crew list, 1836", "kind": "primary", "status": "Reproduction in Nielsen consulted", "citation": "National Archives of Malta, Register of Arrivals in the Great Harbour of La Valetta, NAM CUS 18 K40 (1836), fol. 2533.", "summary": "Thirteen crew members on a voyage in 1836. A reproduction appears in Nielsen, p. 322, fig. 3; this is not the crew list for 1838.", "date": "1836", "url": "https://nationalarchives.gov.mt/", "note": "Archival image reproduced in Nielsen 2024, p. 322, fig. 3. The photograph shows a record from 1836, not the crew of the final voyage. The complete original and a higher-resolution reproduction should be requested separately. Reused through Nielsen’s non-commercial CC BY-NC publication; original repository: National Archives of Malta.", "image": "assets/nielsen-malta-register.webp", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "med1838", "title": "Il Mediterraneo · 17 October 1838", "kind": "primary", "status": "Extract in Nielsen consulted", "citation": "Il Mediterraneo: Gazzetta di Malta, 17 October 1838; National Library of Malta.", "summary": "Shipping notices concerning Beatrice and Blazer; reproduced in Nielsen, p. 323, fig. 4. The complete newspaper and its context still require comparison.", "date": "1838", "url": "https://www.maltalibraries.gov.mt/", "note": "Newspaper extract reproduced in Nielsen 2024, p. 323, fig. 4. The captain’s name appears as F. R. Whichelo; Nielsen interprets this as a probable printing error for J. R. Whichelo. The complete edition, context and surrounding issues still require separate consultation. Reused through Nielsen under CC BY-NC; original repository: National Library of Malta.", "image": "assets/nielsen-malta-newspaper.webp", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Contemporary newspaper", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "alb1839", "title": "Liverpool Albion · missing-ship report", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Liverpool Albion, 5 February 1839, as cited by Nielsen (2024), p. 323.", "summary": "Report that no further news had been received of Beatrice since her reported departure. The original edition and date require independent verification.", "date": "1839", "url": "https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Contemporary newspaper", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "bt120", "title": "Beatrice · earlier seamen’s lists", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "The National Archives, BT 120, Seaman’s Lists 1835–1836, Nos. 10133, 10134, 10135; Nielsen p. 320, note 31.", "summary": "Archival lead for earlier crew members and Whichelo’s sons.", "date": "1835–1836", "url": "https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=BT%20120", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "campjuly", "title": "Campbell · letter concerning embarkation", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Campbell to Josiah Forshall, July 1838; cited through Paul Boughton, Ancient Egypt Magazine 51/9 (2009), p. 22, in Nielsen (2024), p. 317, note 15.", "summary": "Indirect transmission through successive publications: the original letter and precise date are absent from this corpus.", "date": "1838", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/resources/library-and-archive", "note": "This reference is taken from Nielsen’s study, which has been read. The document is not classified here as “Read directly” without independent consultation of an original scan. The link leads to the institution or a catalogue search, and does not necessarily provide a digital reproduction.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "arqva", "title": "ARQVA · the Navidad wreck", "kind": "primary", "status": "Read directly", "citation": "Iván Negueruela Martínez, Marina Gamboa Gil de Sola, David Munuera Navarro et al., El pecio de Navidad (bahía de Cartagena): memoria arqueológica-documental. El vapor Vargas hundido en 1886, MANS 1 (Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, December 2023), especially pp. 15–17.", "summary": "Participant report on rejection of the 1997 La Podadera lead and the separately discovered Navidad wreck, identified as Vargas.", "pdf": "sources/arqva-navidad-2023.pdf", "url": "https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr:fdc721e9-3b3f-4911-9207-2fc3bcc08fbd/mans-01-el-pecio-de-navidad-media.pdf", "date": "2023", "note": "Primary source for the authors’ own research activities described in the report. Historical retrospectives within it are not automatically primary sources for 1838. The introduction gives 1839 as the year of loss; that statement is not used here to replace the earlier dating. Publication: CC BY 4.0; individual image credits continue to apply.", "sha256": "e068cffe79bc40e59990a8ad7e53d4415e3cc530aa48c7e55c6d23d8923b2184", "bibliographic_title": "El pecio de Navidad (bahía de Cartagena): memoria arqueológica-documental. El vapor Vargas hundido en 1886", "authors": [ "Negueruela Martínez, Iván", "Gamboa Gil de Sola, Marina", "Munuera Navarro, David" ], "year": "2023", "publisher": "Ministerio de Cultura", "ris_type": "BOOK", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Participant research report", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "museumletters", "title": "Vyse, Hawkins and Forshall · January 1838 letters", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Vyse to Hawkins, 16 January 1838; Hawkins to Forshall, 17 January 1838. Nielsen p. 315, note 10; no archival reference given.", "summary": "The offer of the objects and the museum’s response; the original correspondence should be requested from the museum archives.", "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/resources/library-and-archive", "date": "1838", "note": "Nielsen bases this reference on a personal communication from the museum archives in 2022. No archival reference has been invented.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival document", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "registers", "title": "Register of Shipping · 1829–1834", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "The Register of Shipping, 1829 p. 78; 1830 p. 75; 1831 p. 73; 1832 p. 76; 1834 p. 87. Nielsen pp. 318–319, notes 17–20.", "summary": "Annual registers for comparing ownership, rig, registration and trade routes.", "url": "https://heritage.lrfoundation.org.uk/", "date": "1829–1834", "note": "Register references identified through Nielsen. The registers and any loss annotations still require independent consultation.", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Historical shipping register", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "press3738", "title": "Press reports · final outward voyage, 1837–1838", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Liverpool Albion, 28 November 1837; Lloyd’s List, 18 January 1838; Liverpool Albion, 19 March 1838. Nielsen pp. 320–321, notes 32–34.", "summary": "Original reports concerning Liverpool, Civitavecchia and Alexandria.", "url": "https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/", "date": "1837–1838", "note": "Publication dates must not be treated as arrival dates without checking. The complete original reports are absent from this archive.", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Contemporary shipping reports", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "cargo1837", "title": "Cargo advertisement · 1 September 1837", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original not yet consulted", "citation": "Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser, 1 September 1837; Nielsen p. 319.", "summary": "Cotton, other merchandise and cases described as natural history.", "url": "https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/", "date": "1837", "note": "The contents of the natural history cases have not been independently established. The wording does not prove an earlier shipment of antiquities.", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Contemporary newspaper", "inspection_level": "unseen", "inspection_label": "Original not examined" }, { "id": "portrait", "title": "Whichelo · portrait and reverse", "kind": "primary", "status": "Archival reference not yet established", "citation": "King’s College Archive Centre, Cambridge, E. M. Forster personal papers; Nielsen p. 318 fig. 2 and p. 320 note 27.", "summary": "Miniature portrait and handwritten biographical note.", "url": "https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre", "date": "n.d.", "note": "Reproduced in Nielsen; the exact archival reference and reproduction rights still require confirmation with the institution.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Historical portrait", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "neg03", "title": "Negueruela · the 1997 search, participant account", "kind": "primary", "status": "Relevant pages read directly", "citation": "Iván Negueruela, “Panorama del Museo Nacional de Arqueología Marítima y Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Subacuáticas (Cartagena)”, Monte Buciero 9 (2003), 149–186, especially 163–164.", "summary": "The museum director describes the early 1997 museum–navy investigation and discovery of the Navidad wreck.", "url": "https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/759266.pdf", "date": "2003; fieldwork: early 1997", "note": "Participant retrospective. Primary for the director’s account of his institution’s work, rather than the nineteenth-century voyage. The relevant pages were checked in the downloaded publication. No republication licence has been established; the PDF is linked at its original host.", "bibliographic_title": "Panorama del Museo Nacional de Arqueología Marítima y Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Subacuáticas (Cartagena)", "authors": [ "Negueruela, Iván" ], "year": "2003", "journal": "Monte Buciero", "volume": "9", "pages": "149–186", "ris_type": "JOUR", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Participant research report", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "aurora11", "title": "ARQUA · geophysical surveys of 2007–2011", "kind": "primary", "status": "Complete seven-page paper read directly", "citation": "Rocío Castillo Belinchón, Ana Miñano Domínguez, David Munuera Navarro, Timmy Gambin and José Rodríguez Iborra, “Prospecciones arqueológicas geofísicas realizadas por el Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática de 2007 a 2011”, Actas de las Jornadas de ARQUA 2011, 17–23; especially 18–20. University of Malta OAR, handle 123456789/25882.", "summary": "Participant report documenting the 2007–2008 Cartagena campaigns, instruments, survey zones and selected results.", "url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/25882", "date": "ARQUA 2011 proceedings; fieldwork: 2007–2011", "note": "The Cartagena project is described on pp.18–20; other campaigns have different locations and aims. No Beatrice identification is reported. The repository dates the item 2011, while the paper’s bibliography includes 2012: the meeting title is not used to establish its release date. The publicly accessible original PDF is linked from the repository; no reuse licence was found.", "original_pdf_url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/25882/1/Prospecciones%20arqueol%C3%B3gicas%20geof%C3%ADsicas.pdf", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Participant research report", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "aurora-project", "title": "Aurora Trust · Cartagena project record", "kind": "primary", "status": "Institutional project page read directly", "citation": "Aurora Trust, “Cartagena, Spain”, institutional project page, sections 2007 and 2008, consulted 14 October 2026.", "summary": "The participating organisation’s account and photographic archive of its Cartagena seabed survey.", "url": "https://www.auroratrust.com/project/cartagena/", "date": "Fieldwork sections: 2007 and 2008; page undated", "note": "Primary institutional self-report of its own project. The page does not identify Beatrice. Its promotional superlatives are not adopted here. Photographs remain on the original website; their reuse rights have not been established.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Institutional project account", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "boughton10", "title": "Boughton · 2010 search update", "kind": "report", "status": "Published update read; underlying correspondence unseen", "citation": "Paul Boughton, “Lost Sarcophagus: Search Update”, Egyptology News Network, 2 July 2010.", "summary": "Online update attributing a negative Beatrice result, with a survey-area limitation, to Timmy Gambin.", "url": "https://egyptologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2010/07/lost-sarcophagus-search-update.html", "date": "2 July 2010", "note": "Reporting rather than a complete expedition report. The original exchange with Gambin is not supplied. Compare the statement with the participant publication AURORA11; do not infer that every possible location was surveyed or excluded.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Press report or commentary", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "clos95a", "title": "El País · Clos project announcement, 1995", "kind": "report", "status": "Contemporary report read directly", "citation": "Jacinto Antón, “El sarcófago de Micerino”, El País, 14 May 1995.", "summary": "An interview with foundation director Adolf Luna about preparatory work for Salvar al Faraón.", "url": "https://elpais.com/diario/1995/05/14/cultura/800402401_850215.html", "date": "14 May 1995", "note": "Evidence for a public proposal, not operational completion. Original project documentation remains unexamined. Historical and technical assertions elsewhere in the article are not adopted.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Press report or commentary", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "clos95b", "title": "El País · proposed search schedule, 1995", "kind": "report", "status": "Contemporary report read directly", "citation": "Ángel Joaniquet, “En busca del mayor tesoro egipcio sumergido”, El País, 14 May 1995.", "summary": "Companion announcement giving a prospective search start and proposed area.", "url": "https://elpais.com/diario/1995/05/14/cultura/800402417_850215.html", "date": "14 May 1995", "note": "A future start is not a completed campaign. Its loss date, cargo estimates and claims about earlier permits require independent checking; no wreck position is adopted.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Press report or commentary", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "hawass08", "title": "2008 · Hawass / Ballard search proposal", "kind": "report", "status": "Contemporary digest read; project records unseen", "citation": "“Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard called to find lost sarcophagus”, History News Network, 14 June 2008, digest attributed to The Times (UK).", "summary": "Contemporary reporting names Hawass, proposed financing and potential underwater collaborators.", "url": "https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/titanic-discoverer-robert-ballard-called-to-find-l", "date": "14 June 2008", "note": "The surviving digest is a partial, secondhand record of the proposal. No signed agreement, authorisation or campaign report has been examined. It cannot establish an executed Ballard expedition, or its success or failure. Its nineteenth-century voyage narrative is not adopted.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Press report or commentary", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "ares25", "title": "Nacho Ares · testimony about a 2020 meeting", "kind": "primary", "status": "Published first-person interview read directly", "citation": "María Gilabert Almagro, interview with Nacho Ares, “El hallazgo del sarcófago del faraón Micerinos ofrecería mucha información sobre la historia de la arqueología”, Casa Mediterráneo, 27 February 2025; answer concerning the January 2020 Madrid meeting.", "summary": "Ares recalls being present when Hawass and Carmen Calvo discussed a proposed project.", "url": "https://casa-mediterraneo.es/nacho-ares-el-hallazgo-del-sarcofago-del-faraon-micerinos-ofreceria-mucha-informacion-sobre-la-historia-de-la-arqueologia/", "date": "27 February 2025; recalled event: January 2020", "note": "Primary testimony for what the interviewee says he attended, recorded five years later; the meeting’s original file remains unseen. His statements about renewed interest establish no fieldwork. Unverified voyage, technical and ownership claims elsewhere in the interview are not used as established conclusions.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Participant recollection", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "gibbins13", "title": "David Gibbins · documentary research for Pharaoh", "kind": "primary", "status": "Author’s original commentary read directly", "citation": "David Gibbins, “PHARAOH: the sarcophagus of Menkaure and the wreck of the Beatrice”, author’s journal, 28 August 2013.", "summary": "First-person account of register research undertaken while writing the novel Pharaoh.", "url": "https://davidgibbins.com/journal/2013/8/28/pharaoh-the-sarcophagus-of-menkaure-and-the-wreck-of-the-beatrice", "date": "28 August 2013", "note": "Primary for the author’s account of his own research. The fictional dive and imagined sinking mechanism are not discoveries or eyewitness evidence. Details drawn from Lloyd’s Register require comparison with the original entries; speculative vessel armament and loading are not established here. The author’s complete commentary was examined; the full novel was not reviewed for this edition.", "display_label": "Author testimony — research for fiction", "evidence_scope": "Primary only for the author’s account of writing and research; not an eyewitness report of a wreck discovery.", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Author testimony — research for fiction", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "ares13", "title": "Ares · earlier initiatives requiring original records", "kind": "report", "status": "Retrospective article read; cited project files unseen", "citation": "Nacho Ares, “Tras las huellas de Micerinos”, author’s website; identified there as published in Más Allá, April 2013.", "summary": "Later account naming earlier British initiatives, Spanish researchers in 1985 and the Clos proposal.", "url": "https://nachoares.com/articulos/tras-las-huellas-de-micerinos/", "date": "April 2013", "note": "Secondary retrospective used to identify leads, not to certify expeditions. Original applications, decisions and participant records have not been located in this review. Conflicting voyage dates, crew-survival claims and conflated stone and wooden finds are not adopted.", "source_group": "report", "document_type": "Press report or commentary", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "search97-files", "title": "1997 museum–navy campaign · original files sought", "kind": "target", "status": "Campaign documented; original operational file not examined", "citation": "Research target: underlying agreement, dive logs, plans and recording for the 1997 Cartagena investigation described in NEG03, pp.163–164, and ARQVA, pp.15–17. No archival shelfmark established.", "summary": "Records needed to reconstruct the search footprint and candidate rejection in detail.", "date": "1996–1997", "note": "The published participant reports identify enquiry points. The underlying files have not been examined; no particular shelfmark or present custody is established.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Project records sought", "inspection_level": "unlocated", "inspection_label": "Underlying files not located" }, { "id": "survey08-files", "title": "2007–2008 museum–Aurora surveys · datasets sought", "kind": "target", "status": "Published survey examined; full datasets not examined", "citation": "Research target: the museum–Aurora project agreement, track files, sonar mosaics, anomaly register and ROV records underlying AURORA11, pp.18–20. No archival shelfmark established.", "summary": "Original operational records needed to assess coverage and detection limits.", "date": "2007–2008", "note": "The published participant reports identify enquiry points. The underlying files have not been examined; no particular shelfmark or present custody is established.", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Project records sought", "inspection_level": "unlocated", "inspection_label": "Underlying files not located" }, { "id": "pharaohpub", "title": "Pharaoh · fiction and US edition record", "kind": "literature", "status": "Publisher record read directly; novel not reviewed in full", "citation": "David Gibbins, Pharaoh (Dell, 2013), US mass-market paperback, published 1 October 2013, ISBN 9780345534705.", "summary": "Publisher’s edition and genre information for a fictional Jack Howard adventure.", "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/218166/pharaoh-by-david-gibbins/", "date": "2013-10-01", "note": "The stated date and ISBN concern this US edition. The author’s 2013 commentary establishes its connection to the sarcophagus. Fictional events are not expedition evidence.", "evidence_scope": "Cultural reception; not evidence of a real Beatrice discovery or recovery.", "bibliographic_title": "Pharaoh", "authors": [ "Gibbins, David" ], "year": "2013", "publisher": "Dell", "isbn": "9780345534705", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "Publisher’s edition record ↗", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Publisher or edition record", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "gibbins15", "title": "Gibbins · Pyramid introduction and fictional excerpt", "kind": "literature", "status": "Author’s introduction and excerpt read directly", "citation": "David Gibbins, “PYRAMID: excerpt from the novel (the wreck of the Beatrice)”, author’s journal, 5 March 2015.", "summary": "The author explicitly places the discovery and return to Beatrice within his two novels.", "url": "https://davidgibbins.com/journal/2015/3/5/pyramidexcerptfromthenovelbeatrice", "date": "2015-03-05", "note": "The full novel has not been reviewed. The 2015 excerpt date is distinct from the UK hardcover publication in November 2014. Copyrighted text remains on the author’s website.", "evidence_scope": "Cultural reception; not evidence of a real Beatrice discovery or recovery.", "authors": [ "Gibbins, David" ], "year": "2015", "ris_type": "ELEC", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Novel excerpt and introduction", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "pyramidpub", "title": "Pyramid · fiction and UK edition record", "kind": "literature", "status": "Publisher record read directly; novel not reviewed in full", "citation": "David Gibbins, Pyramid (Headline, 2014), UK hardcover, published 6 November 2014, ISBN 9780755354047.", "summary": "Publisher’s bibliographic record for the UK hardcover of the adventure novel.", "url": "https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/david-gibbins/pyramid/9780755354047/", "date": "2014-11-06", "note": "This record establishes the cited edition’s publication details and fiction classification. Later excerpt and edition dates do not change the hardcover date.", "evidence_scope": "Cultural reception; not evidence of a real Beatrice discovery or recovery.", "bibliographic_title": "Pyramid", "authors": [ "Gibbins, David" ], "year": "2014", "publisher": "Headline", "isbn": "9780755354047", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "Publisher’s edition record ↗", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Publisher or edition record", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "blasco25", "title": "Blasco Ibáñez · travel-writing account, 1925", "kind": "literature", "status": "Original printed page 321 and catalogue read directly", "citation": "Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, La vuelta al mundo, de un novelista, tomo III (Valencia: Prometeo, 1925), chapter XIX, “Las Pirámides y la Esfinge”, p. 321. Facsimile: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2008.", "summary": "A 1925 travel retelling claims a floating coffin was recovered; this passage identifies no supporting eyewitness or documentary source.", "url": "https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/la-vuelta-al-mundo-de-un-novelista-tomo-iii--0/html/01ccb8ea-82b2-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_326.htm", "date": "1925", "note": "Travel writing by a novelist, not a fictional novel. In this passage the writer calls the mummy coffin leather, and supplies no ship name, loss date or documentary citation. His story is cultural reception rather than established voyage or recovery evidence. The original page was visually inspected; the complete book has not been critically reviewed.", "evidence_scope": "Cultural reception; not evidence of a real Beatrice discovery or recovery.", "bibliographic_title": "La vuelta al mundo, de un novelista", "authors": [ "Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente" ], "year": "1925", "publisher": "Prometeo", "publication_place": "Valencia", "volume": "III", "pages": "321", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "Original facsimile · p. 321 ↗", "display_label": "Travel writing — uncorroborated retelling", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Travel writing — uncorroborated retelling", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "baltimont", "title": "Baltimont · Le sarcophage de Mykérinos, comic", "kind": "literature", "status": "Publisher’s synopsis and opening excerpt page read; full album not reviewed", "citation": "Jal, Le sarcophage de Mykérinos, Les aventures du professeur Baltimont, vol. 1 (Clair de Lune). French edition recorded for 2015: ISBN 9782353256853; 2019 edition: ISBN 9782353258468. Dutch softcover: Dark Dragon Books, ISBN 9789463737654.", "summary": "A fictional comic adventure uses Beatrice and the lost sarcophagus as the premise for Professor Baltimont’s expedition.", "url": "https://www.editionsclairdelune.fr/catalogue/professeur-baltimont/", "date": "French editions recorded: 2015 and 2019; publisher page undated", "note": "The French publisher’s synopsis and one opening page were directly examined, as was the Dutch publisher’s product record. The French dates and ISBNs were compared in bookseller bibliographic records; original colophons were not examined. The complete album has not been read. Publisher storytelling about the loss is not used as maritime evidence.", "evidence_scope": "Fiction and cultural reception; not evidence of a real discovery or of the cause or position of the wreck.", "bibliographic_title": "Le sarcophage de Mykérinos", "authors": [ "Jal" ], "year": "2015", "publisher": "Clair de Lune", "volume": "1", "isbn": "9782353256853", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "French publisher · synopsis and excerpt ↗", "dutch_publisher_url": "https://www.darkdragonbooks.com/a-87015931/thriller/baltimont-de-avonturen-van-prof-1-sc/", "excerpt_url": "https://www.editionsclairdelune.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ProfesseurBaltimont1p03-16-1.jpg", "edition_metadata_urls": [ "https://www.fnac.com/a8028929/Les-aventures-du-Professeur-Baltimont-Tome-01-Le-sarcophage-de-Mykerinos-Jean-Louis-Aguila", "https://www.fnac.com/a12881256/Les-aventures-du-Professeur-Baltimont-1-Tome-1-Professeur-Baltimont-T1-ned-Le-sarcophage-de-mykerinos-Jal" ], "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Comic and publisher record", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "fiechter05", "title": "Fiechter · À la recherche du sarcophage perdu de Mykérinos", "kind": "literature", "status": "Title, year and genre identified; complete novel not read", "citation": "Jean-Jacques Fiechter, À la recherche du sarcophage perdu de Mykérinos (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005). Identified in the author bibliography of the Dictionnaire du Jura and the Mémoires d’Ici archive catalogue, JJF 10.", "summary": "French novel concerning the lost sarcophagus; classified as a novel in the institutional author bibliography.", "url": "https://diju.ch/f/notices/detail/4749-fiechter-jean-jacques-1927-2022", "date": "2005", "note": "The bibliography places this title under novels; the archive catalogue confirms the 2005 book and publisher. These are metadata checks, not a critical reading of the complete work. Do not confuse it with the author’s historical study of 2001.", "evidence_scope": "Fiction and cultural reception; no fictional search or recovery is entered as a verified historical event.", "bibliographic_title": "À la recherche du sarcophage perdu de Mykérinos", "authors": [ "Fiechter, Jean-Jacques" ], "year": "2005", "publisher": "Maisonneuve et Larose", "publication_place": "Paris", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "Institutional author bibliography · genre ↗", "source_group": "literature", "document_type": "Novel: bibliographic identification", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "fiechter01", "title": "Fiechter · Mykérinos, le dieu englouti, study awaiting review", "kind": "secondary", "status": "Historical work identified; contents and references not assessed", "citation": "Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Mykérinos, le dieu englouti (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2001). Identified in the Dictionnaire du Jura bibliography and the Mémoires d’Ici archive catalogue, JJF 10.", "summary": "An earlier historical study, distinct from the 2005 novel. Its substantive arguments remain unassessed here.", "url": "https://diju.ch/f/notices/detail/4749-fiechter-jean-jacques-1927-2022", "date": "2001", "note": "The institutional bibliography lists this title among scholarly/historical works. Bibliographic identification does not establish the accuracy of its historical statements. Obtain the complete book and follow its source references before incorporating its conclusions.", "bibliographic_title": "Mykérinos, le dieu englouti", "authors": [ "Fiechter, Jean-Jacques" ], "year": "2001", "publisher": "Maisonneuve et Larose", "publication_place": "Paris", "ris_type": "BOOK", "link_label": "Institutional bibliography · historical work ↗", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Scholarly study", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "fiechter-papers", "title": "Mémoires d’Ici · Fiechter’s Mykérinos papers", "kind": "institution", "status": "Archival catalogue checked; underlying papers not examined", "citation": "Mémoires d’Ici, Centre de recherche et de documentation du Jura bernois, CH MDI, Jean-Jacques Fiechter, JJF 10, material concerning Mykérinos: le dieu englouti (2001) and À la recherche du sarcophage perdu de Mykérinos (2005). Catalogue series and subseries consulted 14 October 2026.", "summary": "Identified archival series associated with both books, including manuscript and documentation subseries.", "url": "https://collections.m-ici.ch/detail.aspx?ID=165239", "date": "Works: 2001 / 2005; archive catalogue consulted 2026", "note": "Catalogue references are real and directly checked. The documents themselves have not been consulted. The series is a possible lead to the author’s research, not proof that any particular Beatrice transport letter or survey record is present. Physical access information does not establish republication rights.", "link_label": "Original archive catalogue · JJF 10 ↗", "source_group": "archival", "document_type": "Archival catalogue", "inspection_level": "metadata", "inspection_label": "Metadata checked; work or file not examined" }, { "id": "stone20", "title": "Ricca and La Russa · underwater stone conservation review", "kind": "secondary", "status": "Original open-access review examined, especially sections 2–3; no Menkaure-specific analysis", "citation": "Michela Ricca and Mauro Francesco La Russa, “Challenges for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH), from Waterlogged and Weathered Stone Materials to Conservation Strategies: An Overview”, Heritage 3, no. 2 (2020), 402–411. DOI: 10.3390/heritage3020024.", "summary": "Review of underwater stone deterioration, diagnosis and conservation; comparative background for conditional scenarios.", "url": "https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage3020024", "original_pdf_url": "https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/heritage/heritage-03-00024/article_deploy/heritage-03-00024.pdf", "date": "29 May 2020", "note": "The original PDF was consulted. This is a review, not a field report on Beatrice. Its carbonate-stone bioerosion discussion cannot establish the behaviour of the stone historically called basalt.", "evidence_scope": "General conservation mechanisms and methodological limits; no object-specific condition estimate.", "bibliographic_title": "Challenges for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH), from Waterlogged and Weathered Stone Materials to Conservation Strategies: An Overview", "authors": [ "Ricca, Michela", "La Russa, Mauro Francesco" ], "year": "2020", "journal": "Heritage", "volume": "3", "issue": "2", "pages": "402–411", "doi": "10.3390/heritage3020024", "ris_type": "JOUR", "link_label": "Original open-access review · DOI ↗", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Scholarly study", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "marble17", "title": "Cámara et al. · experimental marble exposure in Cádiz", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original abstract, methods and relevant results/discussion in the accepted manuscript examined", "citation": "Beatriz Cámara, Mónica Álvarez de Buergo, Manuel Bethencourt, Tomás Fernández-Montblanc, Mauro F. La Russa, Michela Ricca and Rafael Fort, “Biodeterioration of marble in an underwater environment”, Science of the Total Environment 609 (2017), 109–122. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.103.", "summary": "Primary 18-month experiment comparing two marbles under exposed and buried conditions in the Bay of Cádiz.", "url": "https://rodin.uca.es/handle/10498/34387", "original_pdf_url": "https://rodin.uca.es/bitstream/handle/10498/34387/Cmara_et_al_Bio_Underwater2017_Manuscript_rev2.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1", "date": "2017; published online 20 July", "note": "The repository supplies the accepted manuscript; authorship was cross-checked with PubMed PMID 28735089. The experiment concerns marble at approximately 10–11 m depth, not Menkaure’s stone or an unknown deep-water wreck. No long-term rate is extrapolated.", "evidence_scope": "Primary comparative experiment; does not establish the sarcophagus’s location, depth or condition.", "bibliographic_title": "Biodeterioration of marble in an underwater environment", "authors": [ "Cámara, Beatriz", "Álvarez de Buergo, Mónica", "Bethencourt, Manuel", "Fernández-Montblanc, Tomás", "La Russa, Mauro F.", "Ricca, Michela", "Fort, Rafael" ], "year": "2017", "journal": "Science of the Total Environment", "volume": "609", "pages": "109–122", "doi": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.103", "ris_type": "JOUR", "link_label": "University repository · accepted manuscript ↗", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Original research paper", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "vyse-app123", "title": "Vyse II · Appendix p. 123, sarcophagus measurements", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original 1840 title page and measurement table visually checked", "citation": "Richard William Howard Vyse, Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, vol. II (London: J. Fraser, 1840), Appendix, printed p. 123; digital leaf 175 of the 448-page Internet Archive scan.", "summary": "Original table of external and internal sarcophagus dimensions in feet and inches.", "pdf": "sources/vyse-appendix-p123.pdf", "pdf_page_offset": -122, "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operations_carried_on_at_the_pyramids_of_Gizeh_in_1837-_with_an_account_of_a_voyage_into_Upper_Egypt,_and_an_appendix_(IA_operationscarrie02howa).pdf", "date": "1840", "note": "The local PDF is a one-leaf extraction from the complete public-domain scan, rather than a newly typeset table. External breadth reads 3 ft 1 in. Metric equivalents on the object page are calculated conversions, not new measurements.", "full_volume_sha256": "0530ee6f8da726e94d744c61b5eeef4800bba7849fc663db33bfc33bc667137c", "evidence_scope": "Published historical dimensions; no claim of modern measurement accuracy.", "link_label": "Complete original volume · scan record ↗", "source_group": "historical", "document_type": "Historical publication", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined", "sha256": "28bcb6bb6e33c60840be4e8695be95e77a0d2ab666e1e4f2acc4298ac59b8345" }, { "id": "qaitbay19", "title": "Abdelaziz and Elsayed · Qaitbay photogrammetry", "kind": "primary", "status": "Original fieldwork paper, figure 4 and site-change discussion examined", "citation": "M. Abdelaziz and M. Elsayed, “Underwater photogrammetry digital surface model (DSM) of the submerged site of the ancient lighthouse near Qaitbay Fort in Alexandria, Egypt”, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W10 (2019), 1–8. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-1-2019.", "summary": "Primary survey report on submerged architecture, with observations of changing sand cover and surface concretions.", "pdf": "sources/qaitbay-photogrammetry-2019.pdf", "pdf_page_offset": 0, "url": "https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W10/1/2019/", "original_pdf_url": "https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W10/1/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-1-2019.pdf", "date": "2019; photographic fieldwork began 2014", "note": "Fig. 4 credits Ashraf Hussein; the article is CC BY 4.0. The photographed stones have no individually established lithology in that caption. This shallow architectural site is a comparison, not a model of the unknown sarcophagus site.", "bibliographic_title": "Underwater photogrammetry digital surface model (DSM) of the submerged site of the ancient lighthouse near Qaitbay Fort in Alexandria, Egypt", "authors": [ "Abdelaziz, Mohamed", "Elsayed, Mohamed" ], "year": "2019", "journal": "The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences", "volume": "XLII-2/W10", "pages": "1–8", "doi": "10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-1-2019", "ris_type": "JOUR", "evidence_scope": "Site-specific survey and comparison; no Menkaure-specific preservation evidence.", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Original research paper", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined", "sha256": "d6fd5dfccd226fdfe6515ca40558edb1b4c6226a53a45b5ea5ff67404c557d2a" }, { "id": "martens25", "title": "Martens · Antikythera statues and surviving surfaces", "kind": "primary", "status": "Relevant first-hand museum-study sections and object identification examined", "citation": "Brian Martens, “A gymnasion assemblage lost at sea? The statues from the Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered”, Annual of the British School at Athens 120 (2025), 367–419. DOI: 10.1017/S006824542510021X.", "summary": "Original study identifying Herakles Γ 5742 and discussing marble, marine damage and traces protected by sediment.", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S006824542510021X", "date": "29 September 2025, online publication", "note": "The relevant marble material/technique discussion and fig. 11 identification were read. Parian provenance is a macroscopic attribution, not archaeometrically established here. The site uses a separately licensed photographer’s museum image, not the article’s museum photograph.", "bibliographic_title": "A gymnasion assemblage lost at sea? The statues from the Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered", "authors": [ "Martens, Brian" ], "year": "2025", "journal": "Annual of the British School at Athens", "volume": "120", "pages": "367–419", "doi": "10.1017/S006824542510021X", "ris_type": "JOUR", "evidence_scope": "Comparative stone sculpture; no extrapolated damage rate for basalt or Menkaure.", "source_group": "research", "document_type": "Original research paper", "inspection_level": "partial", "inspection_label": "Extract or selected material examined" }, { "id": "naturalearth", "title": "Natural Earth · geographical base map", "kind": "institution", "status": "Public-domain land dataset and terms checked; cartographic context only", "citation": "Natural Earth, 1:110m land polygons, ne_110m_land.geojson, natural-earth-vector distribution; retrieved 16 October 2026. Public-domain dataset.", "summary": "Generalised land outlines for the voyage evidence map; no historical route or wreck position is encoded.", "url": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/", "date": "Dataset retrieved 16 October 2026", "note": "Modern city markers are approximate orientation points. They identify places named in sources, not historical berths or underwater search coordinates. Map projection is a simple equirectangular display.", "dataset_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/master/geojson/ne_110m_land.geojson", "dataset_sha256": "9e0729ee253ca7d7a5c4ae9395fb1902264c5377c52e224d13dd85010e2835d9", "evidence_scope": "Cartographic context, without historical evidentiary authority.", "source_group": "catalogue", "document_type": "Geographical dataset", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined" }, { "id": "vyse-plan-i", "title": "Vyse II · architectural Plate I", "kind": "primary", "document_type": "Historical architectural plate", "source_group": "historical", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined", "status": "Complete original plate and relevant text visually examined", "citation": "Richard William Howard Vyse, Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, vol. II (London: J. Fraser, 1840), Plate I, “Plans and Sections of Passages in the Third Pyramid”, facing printed p.72; complete scan, digital leaf 110.", "summary": "Plans and Sections of Passages in the Third Pyramid.", "pdf": "sources/vyse-1840-plate-i.pdf", "image": "assets/vyse-1840-plate-i.webp", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operations_carried_on_at_the_pyramids_of_Gizeh_in_1837-_with_an_account_of_a_voyage_into_Upper_Egypt,_and_an_appendix_(IA_operationscarrie02howa).pdf", "date": "1840", "sha256": "733608d41aaede35135e20fc242ced4c827cbb06f3ea459d1cf78dd372c22b4b", "full_volume_sha256": "0530ee6f8da726e94d744c61b5eeef4800bba7849fc663db33bfc33bc667137c", "note": "One-leaf extraction from the complete 448-leaf original scan. The full plate and relevant printed references were visually checked on 19 October 2026. Historical room names and interpretations retain their original attribution." }, { "id": "vyse-plan-ii", "title": "Vyse II · architectural Plate II", "kind": "primary", "document_type": "Historical architectural plate", "source_group": "historical", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined", "status": "Complete original plate and relevant text visually examined", "citation": "Richard William Howard Vyse, Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, vol. II (London: J. Fraser, 1840), Plate II, “Small Ante-room and Portcullis in the Third Pyramid”, facing printed p.78; complete scan, digital leaf 118.", "summary": "Small Ante-room and Portcullis in the Third Pyramid.", "pdf": "sources/vyse-1840-plate-ii.pdf", "image": "assets/vyse-1840-plate-ii.webp", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operations_carried_on_at_the_pyramids_of_Gizeh_in_1837-_with_an_account_of_a_voyage_into_Upper_Egypt,_and_an_appendix_(IA_operationscarrie02howa).pdf", "date": "1840", "sha256": "e6f5e0f91e6ce52e817b557c2abaaf9e4b83daf3fd33cd52512f9817ba51c3d6", "full_volume_sha256": "0530ee6f8da726e94d744c61b5eeef4800bba7849fc663db33bfc33bc667137c", "note": "One-leaf extraction from the complete 448-leaf original scan. The full plate and relevant printed references were visually checked on 19 October 2026. Historical room names and interpretations retain their original attribution." }, { "id": "vyse-plan-iii", "title": "Vyse II · architectural Plate III", "kind": "primary", "document_type": "Historical architectural plate", "source_group": "historical", "inspection_level": "examined", "inspection_label": "Stated source examined", "status": "Complete original plate and relevant text visually examined", "citation": "Richard William Howard Vyse, Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, vol. II (London: J. Fraser, 1840), Plate III, “Plans and Sections of Apartments in the Third Pyramid”, facing printed p.81; complete scan, digital leaf 122.", "summary": "Plans and Sections of Apartments in the Third Pyramid.", "pdf": "sources/vyse-1840-plate-iii.pdf", "image": "assets/vyse-1840-plate-iii.webp", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operations_carried_on_at_the_pyramids_of_Gizeh_in_1837-_with_an_account_of_a_voyage_into_Upper_Egypt,_and_an_appendix_(IA_operationscarrie02howa).pdf", "date": "1840", "sha256": "f3ebe1bea8aa2783f7a82fcfb3ca5eb57b3293378028f975a0726c02e6865a50", "full_volume_sha256": "0530ee6f8da726e94d744c61b5eeef4800bba7849fc663db33bfc33bc667137c", "note": "One-leaf extraction from the complete 448-leaf original scan. The full plate and relevant printed references were visually checked on 19 October 2026. Historical room names and interpretations retain their original attribution. Plate III figures 2 and 5 depict the stone chest. The F marker in figure 1 is keyed by pp.85–86 to the separate upper-room find context; L is a different interpreted floor depression, not the chest’s findspot." } ] }