QV53

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QV53
Tomb of Prince Ramses

place Valley of the Queens
Discovery date 1826
excavation 1984 and 1986 by CEDAE / CNRS
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QV53 ( Queens Valley 53 ) is an ancient Egyptian prince's tomb in the Valley of the Queens . It is dated to the 20th dynasty and belongs to Prince Ramses, the later Ramses IV and son of Ramses III.

Location and architecture

The tomb is located near the ancient dam , on the southwest slope of the main wadi in the Königinnental, between the graves of Queen Titi ( QV52 ) and Prince Amunherchepeschef ( QV55 ). It has a north-south orientation and is elongated from the grave type. The grave begins with an anteroom, which is followed by a corridor arched along the axis of the grave with two side chambers. According to Elizabeth Thomas, the corridor width is 181 to 185 cm . The sarcophagus hall follows the corridor with a larger side room.

Exploration and Finds

The grave was first measured in 1826 by the Scottish antique dealer Robert Hay of Linplum . Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini , who explored the Queen's Valley in 1829, could not yet make a clear assignment due to the badly damaged wall decorations. Karl Richard Lepsius , who inventoried the grave in 1844 , pointed out the presence of the cartouches of Ramses III. to. Up to this time the tomb was numbered variously: as No. 3 for Hay, No. 11 for Wilkinson and as No. 8 for Lepsius. In 1958, Jean Yoyotte was able to identify the grave clearly for the first time as that of Prince Ramses. Research into QV53 turned out to be difficult for a long time, as the grave complex remained buried halfway up the wall until it was finally uncovered by the Egyptian-French mission (CEDAE / CNRS ) in the mid-1980s.

Among the most important finds from the grave the remains include a wig of blue faience and fragments of a prince statue from granite .

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Except for a few fragments, the wall decorations are barely preserved, which made it difficult to identify the grave for a long time. The cartouches of King Ramses III can be found in the first room . , which - analogous to other prince graves from this time - was probably represented together with the prince before the gods. At the passage to the first corridor, Nephthys is depicted as the mistress of the west on the right . A portal text from Chapter 145 A appears on the left-hand side .

The most important representation can be found on the left entrance wall of the third room. There one of the guardian deities named " Anubis on his shrine" is presumably mentioned on a fragment , so this room probably served as a sarcophagus chamber. Next to it is a destroyed writing on which, according to Yvotte, Ramses is mentioned as the son of a great royal wife and who identifies Ramses as the owner of the grave. Yvotte was also able to prove that two decorative layers were applied on top of each other at this point, although the representation was not changed.

literature

  • Robert Hay of Linplum: Manuscripts 29821 . British Library, London, pp. 139-140 .
  • Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Leipzig / Berlin, p. 229 (1897-1913).
  • Jean Yoyotte : The tomb of Prince Ramesses in the Valley of Queens (n ​​° 53) . In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology (JEA) . No. 44 , 1958, pp. 26-30 .
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : The Theban necropolis; 2, Royal tombs and smaller cemeteries . In: Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings . Oxford 1964, p. 750, 759 .
  • Kenneth Anderson Kitchen : Ramesses VII and the Twentieth Dynasty . In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology (JEA) . No. 58 . Oxford 1972, p. 186-189 .
  • Friedrich Abitz: Ramses III. in the graves of his sons . In: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis . tape 72 . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3-525-53701-8 , p. 26-29 .
  • Monique Nelson, Francis Janot: Une "gisante" renaissant de ses cendres . In: Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie Orientale (BIFAO) . No. 93 . Universitätsverlag, 1993, ISSN  0255-0962 , p. 371-378 .
  • Christian Leblanc, Alberto Siliotti: Nefertari - excavations in the valley of the queens . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0705-9 , pp. 187 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari - excavations in the valley of the queens. 1998, p. 187.
  2. ↑ Thomas: Necropoleis. 1966, p. 219.
  3. ↑ Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari - excavations in the valley of the queens. 1998, pp. 62-65.
  4. ↑ Abitz: Ramses III. in the graves of his sons. 1986, p. 26.
  5. ↑ Abitz: Ramses III. in the graves of his sons. 1986, pp. 26-29.

Coordinates: 25 ° 43 ′ 38.7 "  N , 32 ° 35 ′ 31.4"  E