MMA 5A P2

The ancient Egyptian burial chapel, which bears the modern designation MMA 5A P2 , was excavated in 1916 by Ambrose Lansing in Dra Abu el-Naga (part of the Theban necropolis). It was a free-standing adobe chapel, which was decorated inside with wall paintings. The chapel consisted of only one room, which was only about 1.9 × 2.9 meters inside. There was a shaft in front of the entrance to the chapel that led down to three underground burial chambers. The chapel and the shaft stood in a walled, rectangular area, the wall of which is only partially preserved. It can no longer be said today where the entrance to the district was once located.

Only about 50 fragments of the wall paintings were found. These indicate that the interior of the chapel was decorated with the typical scenes of Theban burial chapels. Some fragments belong to servants bringing furniture, apparently at a funeral ceremony. A funeral train also includes fragments depicting mourners and the rest of a sledge on which the coffin probably once stood. Other fragments show male and female figures, which can probably be reconstructed for a celebration. A few fragments show craftsmen, offerings and there are fragments of the painted representation of a false door . Only a few fragments show inscriptions, but there is one fragment on which the king's son Tetianch is named. Perhaps this is the owner of the grave.

Especially in the Second Intermediate Period and in the early 18th Dynasty , such burial chapels seem to have been lent, but only very few have survived.

literature

• C. Lilyquist: A foreign vase representation from a new Theban tomb (the chapel for MMA 5A P2). In J. Phillips (ed.): Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East. Volume II. Van Siclen Books, San Antonio TEX 1997, ISBN 0-933175-44-2 , pp. 307-343.