KV49
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KV49 |
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| place | Valley of the Kings |
| Discovery date | January 1906 |
| excavation | Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis |
| Previous KV48 |
The following K50 |
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KV49 ( Kings' Valley no. 49 ) is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings . It is located in the southwestern part of the valley and was discovered in January 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis . The owner of the grave is unknown.
KV49 is regarded as a non-royal grave and its type corresponds to a corridor grave from the time of the middle 18th dynasty ( New Kingdom ). The unfinished tomb has a total size of 46.61 m² and has no decorations.
In the grave there were tools from carpenters and stonemasons, funeral utensils, parts of mummy bandages , roughly worked game boards as well as whitewashed jugs and an ostracon .
There are two graffiti in hieratic script above the entrance , showing that the scribe Butehamun and his workers brought large quantities of temple linen into the tomb. Not only does this mean that KV49 was accessible in the later New Kingdom, but it also suggests that KV49 may have served as a warehouse for linen cloths that were used to restore royal mummies. Another indication of this is the fragment of a so-called “mummy label” on which “corpse oil” is noted in the hieratic. So there is a connection to Ramses III. whose grave ( KV11 ) is not far away. Not only were scarves found on his mummy that resemble those mentioned in the graffiti, but a label also found on the mummy names Butehamun, who was involved in the later restoration of the mummy.
The grave entrance was provided with a wall by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to protect the grave from flooding.
See also
literature
- 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. 185 and 206.
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Remarks
- ↑ In this case, graffiti refers to writings or signatures that were added later.