KV47

KV47 tomb of Siptah
place	Valley of the Kings
Discovery date	December 18, 1905
excavation	Edward Russell Ayrton

Previous KV46

The following KV48

KV47 Valley of the Kings (Eastern Valley)

KV47 ( King's Valley Tomb No. 47 ) is the tomb of Siptah , the seventh ancient Egyptian ruler of the 19th Dynasty in the Valley of the Kings . The construction of the tomb was started in Siptah's first year of reign, but remained unfinished.

architecture

The tomb consists of a series of corridors that lead to the Pharaoh's burial chamber . The whole system is a little over 124 m long. After a staircase you come to the first section, the decoration of which shows the ruler before Re , but also the litany of the sun . In the following section of the tomb one can find the litany of the sun and various deities depicted. Scenes from the Amduat follow . With a few exceptions, the decoration is rather poorly preserved. The next room is undecorated. A hall with four pillars follows. From there a corridor leads to three undecorated corridor sections, an undecorated chamber and the actual burial chamber, which is also undecorated, i.e. unfinished. This has four pillars on one side. Here is the ruler's sarcophagus , and bones were also found, but apparently belong to later burials and not to Siptah, whose mummy was found in 1898 in KV35 , the grave of Amenhotep II .

Isometric representation, floor plan and sectional drawing of the tomb

Sarcophagus of Siptah

See also

• List of tombs in the Valley of the Kings

literature

• Theodore M. Davis , E. Harold Jones: The Tomb of Siphtah: the monkey tomb and the gold tomb (= Theodore M. Davis' excavations. Volume 4). Constable, London 1908.
• 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. 155-156.

Web links

Commons : KV47  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Theban Mapping Project: KV47 (English)
• University of Basel: MISR: Mission Siptah - Ramses X.
• Archäologie online.de: MISR: Mission Siptah - Ramses X. , August 20, 2001

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 275.

Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 21 ″  N , 32 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  E