KV45
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KV45 |
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| place | Valley of the Kings |
| Discovery date | February 25, 1902 |
| excavation |
Howard Carter Donald P. Ryan |
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KV45 ( Valley of the Kings , grave no. 45) once belonged to the "chief of the fields of Amun", Userhat , a high official at the time of the 18th dynasty .
The grave was found by Howard Carter on February 25, 1902 . It consists of only one small chamber, which can be reached via a 3 m long shaft. According to Carter, one third of the chamber was filled with rubble. On the rubble were two mummies from the 22nd Dynasty , each in a double coffin, and two wooden shabti boxes . The already strongly decayed coffins were recovered until a new cleaning of the grave from 1991 to 1992, whereby the fragment of at this excavation canopic jar was found with the name of Userhat. The pottery found here by Donald P. Ryan dates him to the reign of Thutmose IV or to the first years of the reign of Amenhotep III. The renewed excavation also found human remains of two other people and numerous roughly worked shabtis.
See also
literature
- Howard Carter: Report of work done in Upper Egypt (1902-1903). In Annales du service des antiquités de l'Égypte. (ASAE) Vol. 4, 1903, pp. 45-46.
- Nicholas Reeves , Richard H. Wilkinson : The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-0739-3 , p. 184.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 25 ″ N , 32 ° 36 ′ 11 ″ E