158) a long and narrow flight of stairs and a sloping corridor (A) lead to a little antechamber and two halls (B) supported on pillars.

A second staircase (C) leads through a second antechamber to another pillared hall (D), which was the hiding-place of the sarcophagus.

The tomb did not end here.

A third staircase (E) opening from the end of the principal hall was in progress, and would no doubt have led to more halls and chambers, had not the work been stopped by the death of the king.[33] If we go from catacomb to catacomb, we do not find many variations from this plan.

The entrance passage in the tomb of Rameses III.