QV80
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QV80 Tuja |
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| place | Valley of the Queens |
| Discovery date | 1826 |
| excavation | Unknown |
| Previous QV79 |
The following QV81 |
QV80 ( Queens Valley 80 ) is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Queens . It belongs to Queen Tuja from the 19th dynasty , the Great King Wife of Seti I and mother of Ramses II. Its location is on the northern slope of the main wadi , right next to the famous tomb of Nefertari , with which it has strong similarities in structure.
The grave was first explored in 1826 by the Scottish antiques dealer Robert Hay , who was the first European traveler to systematically measure graves in Queen's Valley. The identity of the owner was still unknown at the time. Even Jean-François Champollion , who in 1829 together with Rosellini , the necropolis researched and first graves had especially assigned, the grave could not as the identify of Tuja. Only the Prussian expedition led by Karl Richard Lepsius discovered an inscription through which it could be clearly assigned to "Mut-Tuja, Great Royal Wife of Seti I".
One of the most important finds is the lid of a jar with a portrait of the Tuja, which is now in the Luxor Museum and bears the inventory number JE 191 . In addition, around 80 faience ushabti figures were recovered, showing the queen in the form of a mummy and bearing sayings from the sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead . A grape harvest from the year 22 by Ramses II emerges from a wine jug, with which the approximate year of death of Tuja could be determined.
literature
- Christian Leblanc, Alberto Siliotti: Nefertari - excavations in the valley of the queens . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0705-9 , pp. 62, 66, 191 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari , 1998, pp. 20-21.
- ↑ Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari , 1998, p. 62.
- ↑ Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari , 1998, p. 66.
- ↑ Leblanc, Siliotti: Nefertari , 1998, p. 191.
Coordinates: 25 ° 43 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 32 ° 35 ′ 32.7 ″ E