2021-12-062021-12-061955-04-07https://library.arce.org/handle/123456789/78On January 28, Mr. and Mrs. Dimmick, Dr. R. F. S. Starr of the State Department, and the Director visited the Cheops Boat Grave Just when the last of the forty-one main ceiling blocks was raised, thus permitting for the first time a completely unobstructed view of the boat's stern. Two large curved panels from the prow in beautiful condition are directly underneath, and in the south-east corner stands a wooden beam, pierced near the top by a slotshaped hole which still houses a piece of rope forming a clue as to the use of these holes which dot most of the woodwork. Further west, two short, wide, curved boards, lying a few inches apart, are connected by several strands of quarter-inch rope which pass through the oblong slots cut into these boards. Thus it appears that all wooden beams, girders, and planks which show these holes were once laced together with rope. Quantities of it are lying in a pile against the eastern end of the south wall of the chamber, partly covered with matting.enJournal