Leaving No. 14, the tomb of Maiherperi ( No. 36 ) is passed, and a little beyond it we
come to No. 15, the tomb of Queen Tausret's second husband Seti II .
Since 1922
this tomb has been famous as the laboratory in which the delicate objects found
in the tomb of Tutankhamun were treated and restored .
The tomb was mapped for the first time in 1737-1738 by Richard Pocock
and James Burton in 1825, and the first excavations were made by Howard Carter
in 1903-1904 . The tomb consists of a short entrance followed by three long
corridors leading to a room. The slope of the entrance and the following
corridors is minimal .
This room opens onto the column-shaped room with its central elevation
leading to the funerary chamber, which is extended by an unfinished corridor .
The walls of the tomb are decorated with : scenes of the Litanies of Rê, The Book of that which is in the Underworld, The Book of Gates ( burial room ) and
representations of the deceased and deities .
In itself, however, it has some claims to notice, as there is some good
hollow relief-work, particularly a figure of the Pharaoh himself, which may be
seen on the right-hand wall near the entrance, in the act of offering an image
of Maet ( the goddess of truth ) . This is a piece of genuine though somewhat
languid merit .
The cartouches and figures near the doorway have been in some cases
erased and then re-cut ; a fact which has led to the supposition that the king
was deposed and then reinstated . Much of the work has never been finished .
The four-pillared hall has on the pillars figures of Nefertum, Horus, Harakhte,
Maet, and other deities .
Apart from the first corridor, the decoration in the rest of the tomb
was probably carried out after the death of the King . In the second and third
corridors, only preliminary sketches were painted on a grayish plaster surface .
There is a marked stylistic difference between the decoration in the column
room and the first corridors of the tomb .
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