Schaden suggests that the lid may never have been put in place, and was instead left resting against the wall. One section of alabaster teeth for a couch or bed, presumably Taweret-shaped, were found, indicating that Ay was interred with at least one funerary couch. Other finds included a piece of a coffin, part of a coffin-shaped lid, and the hand of a statuette, all of wood; more parts of a human skeleton were also encountered, along with an inscribed meat jar fragment. The final chamber contained more fragments of the sarcophagus, further human bones, and the missing part of the meat jar inscription. The meat jar records that it contained "pressed meat for The Bull which was made [or prepared] as cargo for the nšmt-boat" and once formed part of the provisions for Ay's burial. It appears that Ay's burial was a relatively modest affair, as no trace was found of the canopic box or its shrine, nor were any trace of faience or stone ushabti; also absent was any sign of the gilded burial shrines that presumably surrounded the sarcophagus. Schaden suggests that they may have been entirely taken, or never placed in the tomb. The sarcophagus lid may never have been placed on the box, and it may simply have been covered with a pall to which the gilded copper rosettes were attached, as found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Dismantling of the burial Ay's burial was likely vandalised in a sanctioned attack in the reigns of Horemheb or the early Ramesside pharaohs, though Horemheb's treatment of Ay's monuments makes him the most likely culprit. At this time the sarcophagus was smashed, the names and images of Ay and Tey removed, and all the valuables thoroughly looted. The contents of KV58 likely originated from WV23, as Ay's name occurs more frequently than that of Tutankhamun, and were either deposited there by robbers, or purposefully during the dismantling of the royal burials. Reeves and Wilkinson see this as support of the theory that the body of Ay was cached in KV57, the tomb of Horemheb, at this time. Schaden considers that the body of Ay may be the rewrapped "yellow skeleton" interred with later mummies in WV25. References External links KV23: Ay at the Theban Mapping Project Virtual tour of KV23 on Osirisnet Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC WV23 Ay 1816 archaeological discoveries 14th-century