TT1

Painting in the burial chamber of Sennedjem

The family grave of Sennedjem in the cemetery of Deir el-Medina is called TT1 ( Theban Tomb 1 ) . The grave was found untouched by the Bedouin Salam Abu Duhi in 1886 and examined shortly afterwards by Eduard Toda i Güell and Gaston Maspero . The grave equipment ended up in various museums around the world. The majority is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

See also

• List of Theban tombs

literature

• Bernard Bruyère : La tombe no 1 de Sen-nedjem à Deir el Médineh (=  Mémoires / Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Volume 88 ). Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'Archéologie orientale, Le Caire 1959.
• Fahmy 'Abd el Wahab : La tombe de Sen-nedjem à Deir el Médineh: Croquis de position (=  Mémoires / Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Volume 89 ). Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'Archéologie orientale, Le Caire 1959.
• Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes : Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. Theban private graves of the New Kingdom . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 978-3-534-11011-7 , pp. 210-225 .
• Abdel Ghaffar Shedid : The tomb of Sennedjem. A 19th dynasty artist tomb in Deir el Medineh . von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 978-3-8053-1756-6 .

Web links

Commons : Tomb of Sennedjem  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Tomb of Sennedjem  - travel guide

• Unfolding Sennedjem's Tomb by Hany Farid and Samir Farid (PDF, English; 1.6 MB)
• Deir el-Medina, Tomb TT1, Sennedjem (English)
• Tomb of Sennedjem, Servant in the Place of Truth (English)