TT104

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TT104 (Theban Tomb no. 104) is one of the two tombs that the head of the Thotnefer treasure house built on the northern slope of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ( West Thebes ).

Finding

The grave is laid out according to the usual Theban grave complex. There is an approximately 7.7 × 9 m large forecourt, from which one came into a transverse hall that is approximately 7 m long and 2.5 m wide. There is an adjoining longitudinal room that is approx. 4.9 m long. Overall, the tomb has a T-shaped floor plan. There are shafts in the forecourt and longitudinal room that lead to the burial chambers.

The grave is painted, although the paintings are heavily damaged in places today. In the transverse hall one can find representations of Thotnefer in front of the offering table and at celebrations. A stele was painted on the left narrow wall, but it is poorly preserved. The right wall showed a poorly preserved depiction of the tomb lord's hunt in the marshes . The depiction of the house of Thothnefers on the right entrance wall is remarkable. The house is divided into three sections, although it is controversial in research whether these three sections represent floors or three adjacent parts of the house. In the longitudinal room there are mainly depictions of funeral ceremonies and the deceased with his wife in front of the sacrificial table. The back wall of the longitudinal room shows Thotnefer and two women in front of the underworld god Osiris .

See also

literature

  • Susanne Wohlfarth: Grave goods in the flat of the private graves of the New Kingdom - attempt at an iconographic and compositional definition . Inaugural dissertation . Digital university publications of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich 2005. ( full text (PDF; 31.0 MB) as digitized version)
  • AG Shedid: Style of tomb paintings in the time of Amenhotep II. (= Archaeological Publications. (AV) Volume 66). von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0931-7 , pp. 111-138.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overview map of Sheik Abd el Korna, north. In: www.semataui.de. Accessed March 2011 . (Sector B – C / 11–12)

Coordinates: 25 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 36 ′ 34 ″  E