Eight thieves confessed to stripping the gold from the mummies of king Sobekemsaf and queen Nubkhas, and an inquiry under Ramesses IX recorded it

In year 16 of Ramesses IX, about 1110 BC, Paser, mayor of the east side of Thebes, reported robberies in the royal cemetery on the west side, which was the responsibility of its mayor, Pawero. The vizier Khaemwaset sent a commission. The Abbott Papyrus (British Museum EA 10221) records its findings: ten royal tombs inspected, nine intact, and one broken into. That one was the pyramid of king Sekhemre-Shedtawy Sobekemsaf. The burial places of the king and of his queen Nubkhas were found empty, the king's "void of its lord." Two of four tombs of singing-women had also been entered. After Paser quarrelled with the cemetery staff, Pawero reported the matter to the vizier, and Paser's allegations were declared untrue. A second record, the Leopold-Amherst Papyrus, preserves the confession of eight men who had robbed the Sobekemsaf tomb in year 13. They said "We stripped off the gold" from the two mummies, "We set fire to their coverings," and divided the gold "into eight parts." They were examined by beating and held "that Pharaoh might determine their punishment." The sentence is not preserved in Breasted's translation. Pawero stayed in office and the robberies continued. The papyrus was cut in two: the lower half went from Lord Amherst to J. P. Morgan in 1913 (Morgan Library, New York), and Jean Capart found the upper half in Brussels in 1935 (E.6857).