KV53
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KV53 |
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| place | Valley of the Kings |
| Discovery date | 1905-1906 |
| excavation | Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis |
| Previous KV50 – KV52 |
The following KV54 |
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KV53 ( Kings' Valley no. 53 ) is the ancient Egyptian tomb with number 53 in the Valley of the Kings . The owner of the grave is unknown. Exact dating is not possible, but it was used during the New Kingdom .
Discovery and excavation
The discovery and excavation took place between 1905 and 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis . A proper plan was never made. The results were published by Davis in 1908 in The Tomb of Siptah, the Monkey Tomb, and the Gold Tomb (pp. 18–19) and in 1984 with information on the finds by Nicholas Reeves in MDAIK 40 (pp. 232–233) .
Architecture and finds
The grave is a shaft grave consisting of the entrance shaft and an undecorated chamber of 34.02 m². KV53 was already looted in antiquity and was filled with rubble for a long time, so that the grave entrance was considered unknown in recent times. The recent excavation under the direction of Zahi Hawass is not dated and took place as part of an Egyptian excavation campaign, the aim of which was to find graves that were once discovered but then lost again. The entrance to KV53 was relocated and a current plan was made. The excavation team found fragments of pottery , pieces of linen and fragments of wood that may have belonged to a coffin. Other finds were four canopic lids in the shape of a human head, a V-shaped gold foil and a Canaanite amphora , which, according to their style, dates from 1400 to 1300 BC. Is to be dated. There were also human bones and three skulls. According to research, the deceased were a man around 45 years old, a man around 20 and a woman around the age of 23, so it is believed that this could be a father and his children. The tomb itself is dated to the 18th dynasty.
Ayrton found a series of limestone ostraka and a limestone stele in KV53 . The stele was due to the inscriptions the "top writer at the place of truth," Hori, from Deir el-Medina are assigned to which this snake goddess Meretseger had consecrated. Presumably Hori was the owner of the grave. Similar ostraka were also found installed in a workers' hut from the 20th dynasty .
See also
literature
- Nicholas Reeves, Richard H. Wilkinson : The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs . Econ, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8289-0739-3 .
- Zahi Hawass : Discovering Tutankhamun. From Howard Carter to DNA. The University Press, Cairo 2013, ISBN 978-977-416-637-2 , p. 198.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 23 ″ N , 32 ° 36 ′ 2 ″ E