KV10
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KV10 |
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| place | Valley of the Kings |
| Discovery date | in ancient times |
| excavation | Edward Russell Ayrton , Otto Schaden |
| Previous KV9 |
The following KV11 |
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The ancient Egyptian tomb KV10 in the Valley of the Kings was originally built as the burial place of the pharaoh Amenmesse of the 19th dynasty . However, there is no evidence that he was actually buried here.
discovery
The tomb was opened in ancient times. The grave site was properly visited for the first time by Richard Pococke , who recorded the grave on his map in 1743. In the early 19th century, more detailed investigations were carried out by Jean-François Champollion , Karl Richard Lepsius and Richard Wilkinson. In 1883 Eugène Lefébure documented the decorations on the tomb, which he later published. Edward Russell Ayrton finally opened the entrance corridor in 1907. Otto Schaden initiated an excavation and investigation program that was started in 1992 as part of a project by the University of Arizona.
Architecture and decoration
The decoration of the tomb originally intended for Amenmesse is almost identical to that from KV8 , Merenptah's tomb. They show the same entrance motifs: in the first two corridors the litany of Re and in the third scenes from the Amduat . In addition to the book of the dead, there are depictions of the deities Re , the four sons of Horus , Osiris , Isis , Nephthys , Neith , Selket , Anubis and Inmutef . The reliefs had been removed, re-plastered and painted with motifs from Tachat and Baketwerel .
Grave equipment and finds
When Lefébure was tracing most of the visible decorations, he found a limestone fragment that was initially mistaken for part of the Amenmesse sarcophagus . The objects uncovered and discovered in more recent times came from different times: Shabti figures of Seti II , sarcophagus fragments of Ramses VI. as well as other items from subsequent burials. Howard Carter found fragments of canopic jars that were clearly named Tachat . A piece of a sarcophagus lid made of red granite also had the name of Merenptah's wife and presumably mother of Amenmesses.
Despite intensive investigations, it is unclear whether Amenmesse was actually buried in his grave. Two mummies were found , which are believed to be his presumed mother Tachat and his wife Baketwerel. The relationship between both women and him cannot be deduced from the grave, which has been partially redecorated for them.
See also
literature
- Aidan Dodson : The Tomb of King Amenmesse: Some Observations. In: Discussions in Egyptology. (DE) No. 2, Oxford 1985, pp. 7-11 ( list of titles online ( Memento of January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )).
- Rolf Krauss : On the historical classification of Amenmesses and on the chronology of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dynasty. In: Göttinger Miscellen . (GM) Volume 45, Göttingen 1981, pp. 27-33.
- 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 , pp. 150-152.
Web links
- Theban Mapping Project: KV10 (English)
- Amenmesse Project: KV-10 The Tomb of Amenmesse (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugène Lefébure: Les Hypogées royaux de Thèbes (= Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission Archéologique Française au Caire, Ministère de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts. (Annales du Musée Guimet) Volume 9, Part 16). Leroux, Paris 1886–1889. Pp. 81-85.
- ^ A b Nicholas Reeves, Richard H. Wilkinson: The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs. Augsburg 2000, p. 150.
- ↑ Excavations in the Valley of the Kings: KV10 . On: kv5.de ; last accessed on May 16, 2014.
- ↑ Nicholas Reeves, Richard H. Wilkinson: The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs. Augsburg 2000, pp. 151-152.
Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 24 ″ N , 32 ° 36 ′ 5 ″ E