KV32

KV32 tomb of Tiaa
place	Valley of the Kings
Discovery date	1898
excavation	Victor Loret

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Valley of the Kings
(Eastern Valley)

The ancient Egyptian tomb KV32 , located in the Valley of the Kings , was discovered by Victor Loret in 1898 . At the time of discovery, the grave owner was unknown. Today it can be assigned to Tiaa , the wife of Amenhotep II and mother of Thutmose IV.

Exploring the grave

Arthur Weigall suspected that it might be the grave of a family member of Thutmose III. could act. As a further possibility, he saw it as the burial place of a vizier such as Rechmire , whose burial chapel ( TT100 ) was known, but the grave itself was unknown.

After Loret's discovery, there was no publication on the grave . Only the Baedeker from 1902 contains a small description by Georg Steindorff . According to him, KV32 was a royal tomb from the 18th dynasty that was still unexplored. As with KV33 , there seemed to have been no formal exposure and nothing was known about finds from the grave.

KV32 was excavated from 2000 to 2001 as part of the MISR project: Mission Siptah-Ramses X. , which was carried out by the University of Basel . During the work in the tomb, a canopic box belonging to Queen Tiaa was found, through which the tomb owner could be identified.

Architecture and equipment

Isometric representation, floor plan and sectional drawing of the tomb

The tomb was never completed and is undecorated. The basic structure of the grave is similar to that of KV21 . When laying out the tomb of King Siptah ( KV47 ), his workers unintentionally came across KV32.

literature

Karl Baedeker : Egypt: Handbook for travelers. 5th revised edition, K. Baedeker, Leipzig 1902.
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. 183.