Thursday, May 11, 2017

Tombs from : KV26 to KV33 .. Part ( 32 )

Are situated in the main valley . They are uninscribed and unidentified .




KV26
The tomb was discovered on 1825, by James Burton . Virtually nothing is known of this tomb, which may have been first explored by James Burton in the 1825s . Its position was later noted by Victor Loret, in 1898, but no clearance of the interior has ever been recorded . For the possibility that the tomb's occupants were transferred eventually to KV42 .



KV27
The tomb was discovered between 1825s and 1928s, by John Gardner Wilkinson . And it has been excavation by Donald Ryan on 1990, for Pacific Lutheran University . It was examined, albeit superficially,

KV27 was apparently known to John Gardner Wilkinson and may even be alluded to by Richard Pococke . It was examined, albeit superficially, by Eugène Lefébure, who noted the presence of " mummy remains " of uncertain date . More recently, in 1990, the tomb was entered by Donald Ryan, who notes " evidence of at least seven different floodings having taken place, which in some areas filled the sepulcher with rock and dirt debris nearly to the ceiling " . A small sampling of pottery from room ( Bc ) tentatively suggests a mid 18th Dynasty date, perhaps during the reign of Tuthmosis IV or Amenhotep III .

" This architecturally interesting monument resembles the simple plan of tombs 28, 44 and 45, but that three additional rooms seem to have been added to the central rectangular chamber " . By : Donald Ryan .

KV27 seems architecturally to lie between those shaft tombs which open directly into a single room and those tombs in which multiple rooms open from at least one entrance corridor ( as in The Valley of The Queens tombs and KV12 ) . The only tomb having a similar design is KV30, which combines the entrance shaft with a single corridor . Preliminary cutting in the east wall of the southernmost chamber may represent the beginnings of another room, or of a niche ( though the latter feature is rare in tombs of this type ) .



KV28
The tomb was discovered between 1825s and 1935s, by John Gardner Wilkinson, and the tomb has been excavated by Donald Ryan on 1990, for Pacific Lutheran University .

" The tomb had been previously excavated by an unknown party, so we were, in essence, picking through the leftovers " . By : Donald Ryan .

KV28, with its shaft leading down to a single, small, rectangular room, was first noted by Wilkinson in the 1930s, and described by Eugène Lefébure in 1889 as almost completely clear except for a few mummy bones and wrappings . These remains were still present when the tomb was re-examined by Donald Ryan in 1990, and prove to come from at least two individuals . Other finds included " fragments of a limestone canopic jar, many pieces of wooden objects and a stray funerary cone from the Theban necropolis " .

Potsherds from the clearance seem to suggest that the burials dated from around the reign of Tuthmosis IV, whose tomb is close by, and that KV28 perhaps belonged to a high official of that king .



KV29
The tomb was discovered on 1825 by James Burton . Both James Burton and Wilkinson note the position of KV29, but otherwise nothing is known of its plan or contents .



KV30
The tomb was discovered on 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, and the excavation was made for the Earl of Belmore .

KV30 is closely similar to KV27 in design . Nothing is known of its archaeology ; the only recorded find is a potsherd, which Elizabeth Thomas dated to the 18th Dynasty ; James Burton noted a quarry mark (?), in " red characters in chamber of pit ", about which nothing more is known . It is uncertain whether the mid-18th Dynasty quartz-sandstone anthropoid sarcophagus EA 39 in the British Museum, London, presented by Lord Belmore, came from here or KV31 .



KV31
The tomb was discovered on October, 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, and the excavation was made by Giovanni Battista Belzoni on behalf of the Earl of Belmore .

" Their [ the Belmores' ] admiration of all that they saw was music in Giovanni's ears . He warmed especially towards Lord Belmore and even pointed out to him a couple of likely spots in the valley where he might care to dig . The noble traveller found only two small mummy-pits [ KV31 and KV32 ] … " . By : Stanley Mayes .

KV31 is now almost completely sanded up . No details are available about either its form or any surviving contents – though presumably it or KV30 was the findspot of the 18th Dynasty private anthropoid sarcophagus of quartz-sandstone later presented by Lord Belmore to the British Museum .



KV32 - Tomb of Tia'a
The tomb was discovered on 1898 by Victor Loret, and the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités . KV32 has not yet been fully cleared or excavated, but work is underway by a team from the University of Basel's MISR Project :  Mission Siptah-Ramses X (2000-2001) . The Supreme Council of Antiquities has recently built a concrete shelter around the entryway of the tomb .




" It was perhaps used as a burial-place of one of [ Tuthmosis III's ] family, or perhaps for a vizier such as Rekhmara, whose tomb-chapel is to be seen at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, but whose burial-pit is not known " . By : Arthur Weigall .


The tomb may be the burial site of the Queen Tia'a, the wife of Amenhotep II and the mother of Tuthmosis IV, because the mission of the University recently discovered a canopic chest of Queen Tia'a, thus allowing to identifying the owner of the tomb .

Very little is known about this tomb, which is apparently unfinished . It was described by Georg Steindorff in the 1902 Beadeker guide as " probably a royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty, which has not yet been fully explored " . Indeed, no formal clearance appears ever to have been carried out, and no finds are known . According to Harry Burton, the tomb was inadvertently cut into by those quarrying the tomb of Siptah ( KV47 ) – and any burial within KV32 will doubtless have been investigated at that time .



KV33
The tomb was discovered on 1898 by Victor Loret, and the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités .

KV33 is again hardly known . Beadeker in 1902 described it as " a small tomb with two empty rooms, reached by a flight of steps " . It has apparently never been fully cleared .





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