From the point of view of history, this tomb is the most important in
the valley, as it was the one which set the fashion of such interments . It
lies on the west side of the valley close to the tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (
KV14 ) and between it and that of Seti II ( KV15 ) .
In appearance, however, it
is insignificant, as the object of Tuthmosis was not conspicuousness, but the
opposite . The tomb was discovered in 1899 by Victor Loret, and also, he made excavation
in the same year .
The entrance was more of a rabbit-hole than such a façade as suited the
taste of the Ramesside Pharaohs ; and the tomb itself is a comparatively small
affair . This tomb is difficult to accessible at present, which is a pity, not
because of its intrinsic beauty ( for it has none ), but because of its
historical importance as the earliest tomb in the valley and the king Tuthmosis
I, is the first king who was buried in The Valley of the Kings . The entrance
of the tomb is almost towards to the west .
Recently appeared doubts about the date of origin of
KV38 based on the architectural features of the tomb between The tomb of
Tuthmosis I and The tomb of Tuthmosis III . John Romer and others believed that
the tomb was constructed by Tuthmosis III to re-buried his grandfather
Tuthmosis I depends on the similarity of plans between the two tomb ( KV34 and
KV 38 ), although there is a different opinion in the meantime .
A rough flight of steps leads into an irregular, and this in turn into a
more or less square room, from the middle of which another flight of steps
descends into the burial-hall, cartouche-shaped and roughly hewn and it is in a
generally poor state of preservation .
The roof of the burial chamber was supported by a single pillar in the
middle of the chamber, and the walls were originally covered with the stucco of
which, and of his experiments in the making of which, the architect Ineni (
Anena ) was so proud . It has not justified his pride, having fallen off the
walls as a result of the rain water, only a colorful parts at the upper end of
the walls are partly preserved ; but, after all, 3400 years is a long time for
even the most tenacious stucco to stand . Ineni was the great architect the 18th
Dynasty, especially, Amenhotep I, Tuthmosis I, Tuthmosis II, and the joint
reigns of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III . The floor is flat with one level .
In 1899, and during the excavation of the burial
chamber, a small broken parts of limestone slabs and fragments of the wall
covering, inscribed with texts from the Amduat, were found, now,
are in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo . The burial chamber once had decorations,
but today, the plaster pieces with remains of kheker frieze of the ceiling are
only faded under the ceiling .
There are two sarcophaguses of Tuthmosis I of yellow quartzite . One was
found in the tomb of Hatshepsut ( KV20 ) by Howard Carter in 1903-4 ( conducted
for Mr. Theodore Monroe Davis ), it is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
( Nos. 04.278.1 for the box, and 04.278.2 for the lid ) . In 1904, Mr. Davis
gave the sarcophagus to the Museum of Fine Arts as a gift by the Egyptian government
. And the other one, was found in his tomb ( KV38 ) by Victor Loret in 1899 ( conducted
for the Service des Antiquités ), it is now in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo (
No. JE 52344 ) .
The fragments of a sarcophagus of crystalline sandstone were found here
perhaps the results of an early robbery which may have been the determining
factor in Hatshepsut's removal of her father's body to the tomb which she was
preparing for herself in the valley ( KV20 ) .
The sarcophagus ( box and lid ) of yellow crystalline sandstone ( Quartzite
) bearing the name of Tuthmosis I which was found with that of Queen Hatshepsut
in her tomb is so remarkably like that of the queen as to suggest that the two
were made at the same time and by the same artist . In any case, the king was
not allowed to rest in it, for his body ( mummy ) was transferred to El-Deir
el-Bahari, now in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo with his original wooden coffin
( JE 26217, CG 61065 ) where it was duly found in 1881 .
Hatshepsut made the sarcophagus for her beloved father ( Tuthmosis I ),
and she records her hospitality towards his father with text in the outer side
of his sarcophagus : " The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maatkare, the
son of Re, Hatshepsut-Khnemet-Amun . She [ Hatshepsut ] made it as her monument
for her beloved father, the good god, lord of the Two Lands, king of Upper and
Lower Egypt Aakheperkara, the son of Re, Thutmose, vindicated " .
The decorations of the sarcophagus were inscribed in a sunken relief for
the king . The decorations on the exterior of the tub and the edges of the lid
was removed and redesigned, also the inner sides of the tub and the bottom of
the lid were decorated . However, it was probably foreseen that the outer
anthropoid wooden body of Tuthmosis I did not fit into the coffin tub, so the
interior of the sarcophagus tub had to be enlarged by a maximum of 6 cm . The
reliefs of the head and foot end were partly destroyed .
The outer and inner decorations of the box of the
sarcophagus contains a representations of the goddess Isis ( on the foot ), and
the goddess Nephthys ( on the head ), the both goddesses kneeling on the symbols
of gold . The images of the goddesses were destroyed due to the expansion of
the interior of the sarcophagus and re-carved again .
On the left exterior side of the sarcophagus, there
are Wadjet-eyes . To the right of it can see Hapi ( right ), and to the left
are Anubis and Qebehsenuef . And on the another exterior side ( right ), are
Anubis between Imsety on the left edge and Duamutef on the right edge . The lid
have inscriptions of the goddess Nut with outspread arms, also, on the floor of
the sarcophagus, we see Nut with her outspread arms embracing the dead king .
A small annexe opens off the burial-hall . This
chamber have a destroyed walls and ceiling that caused by a flooding .
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