KV18 – Tomb
of Ramses X
This
late Ramesside Pharaoh had a titulary as immense as he was himself unimportant,
he was known as Ra-kheper-maet-setep-en-re and
Ramses-Amen-hir-khopshef-mery-Amun .
His tomb was more in proportion to his significance . It has no reliefs
or inscriptions worth mentioning, and it is used to house the engine for the
electric lighting of the tombs in Howard Carter days . This Pharaoh reigned
from 1130 to 1100 B.C. ( Cambridge Ancient History ) or 1118 to 1090 B.C. (
Breasted ) .
The tomb has never been completed and consists of three consecutive
aisles that reach 42.68 m deep in the rocks . From the original tomb funerary nothing
is preserved and the objects found there have probably been washed up later by
heavy rainfall in the valley . The mummy of Ramses X was never found . The
decoration of the tomb is now heavily damaged .
The tomb is small, unfinished and decoration has been hardly anything
preserved . The tomb, which was never actually used in a royal funeral was once
intended for Ramses X, flooding some damage inflicted considerably over the
years and Howard Carter used the place in 1903 in order to put down a large
generator that electricity could are generated which was required for the
relief of the other graves .
KV19 – Tomb
of Prince MontuHerKhopeschef
Originally
built for Prince Seth-herkhepeshef, later Ramses VIII . The tomb is beautifully
decorated but never finished. It was discovered in 1817 by Belzoni . It was
uncrowded because the entrance was blocked by boulders and debris, until Howard
Carter way to the entrance left quarrying in 1903 .
Prince MontuHerKhopeschef, for whom this tomb was
made, and who was buried here, though the tomb was never finished, was "
Hereditary Prince, Royal Scribe, Royal Son of His [ i.e. Pharaoh's ] Body,
Beloved of Him, Chief of His Majesty, Chief Inspector of Troops Ramses MontuHerKhopeschef
" .
He used to be considered the sixth son of Ramses III,
on the strength of the list at Medinet Habu, but is now held to have been the
eldest son of one of the later Ramesside kings may be Ramses IX .
The entrance to the tomb is imposing, being much the same in scale as
that to the tomb of Ramses IX ( No. 6 ) . There is a long first corridor which
opens into a second corridor with two recesses, which was begun, but never
finished .
An oblong pit was sunk in the floor of this corridor, and the burial was
placed in it, being covered up with limestone flagstones, level with the floor
. The paintings represent the prince in the presence of various gods . They are
well executed and the stucco ground for them has been prepared and levelled
with great care .
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