KV37 – Unknown
The tomb was discovered on 1899 by Victor Loret, and
the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités on 1899 .
The tomb is uninscribed and unidentified . The bone
fragments and pieces of large, whitened storage jars noted here by Elizabeth
Thomas in the 1960s suggest that the 18th Dynasty tomb KV37 had
originally been employed for a burial . The fragments recovered by Loret – a
wooden mummiform statuette and fragmentary socle of Tuthmosis IV, the board for
a fire drill, some 33 ostraca and a vessel fragment of Seti I – seem to be
intrusive, but many indicate that the tomb had at one stage served as a "
workshop " similar to the tomb of Ramses XI ( KV4 ).
For the possibility that the tomb's occupant were
transferred to the tomb of Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra ( KV42 ) .
KV40 – Unknown
The tomb was discovered on 1899 by Victor Loret, and
the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités on 1899 . The
tomb was excavated, but no report was ever published .
No details
are available as to either the plan or surviving contents of this tomb .
KV41 - Unknown
The tomb was discovered on 1899 by Victor Loret, and
the excavation was made by Loret for the Service des Antiquités on 1899 . The
tomb was excavated, but no report was ever published .
KV41 was the last of the tombs located by Victor Loret
in 1899, and three years later, in 1902, according to Georg Steindorff, an
excavation had done in 1991 by the Institut français d'archéologie orientale
( conducted in association with the Faculty of Archaeology of Cairo University ) ,
it had still not been scientifically examined .
KV44 – Tomb of Tentkere
This tomb lies close to the path branching off from
that which leads from the central area of the valley to the tombs of
Hatshepsut, MontuHerKhopeschef and Tuthmosis IV . Returning by this path
towards the central area, the side path referred to branches off to the right,
and leads past the unidentified tombs 21, 27, 28, and 44, to the tomb of Yuya
and Tjuyu ( KV46 ) . The name attached to KV44 is that of an intrusive burial,
probably of a lady of the court ; and the tomb is otherwise without interest . Tentkere
is a lady of the house of Osorkon I, Heiufaa, and a songstress of Amun .
The tomb was discovered on 26 January 1901 by Howard
Carter, and the excavations was made by Carter for Theodore Davis on 1901, and
by Donald Ryan for Pacific Lutheran University on 1991 .
" This Tomb-pit being already known to the reis
of Western Thebes, I decided to open it, the work taking only two days to do .
The rubbish being removed to a depth of 5 meters 50 Centimeter, the door of the
chamber was reached, and I entered on the 26th of January 1901,
finding therein three wooden coffins, placed beside one another at one side of
the chamber, covered with wreaths of flowers … " . By : Howard Carter .
Among
the rubbish of this tomb, the entrance to which had been roughly closed off
with a dry-stone wall, Carter noted remains of earlier mummies without either
coffins or funerary furniture . Ryan's re-clearance of KV44 in 1990-1991
brought to light what was left of this original interment, which contained
seven individuals, three of them children and one as young as two years of age
. The end piece from a child's coffin was also found, together with a blue
cylindrical bead and an uninscribed fragment from a canopic jar . The pottery
fragments were too small to be diagnostic, but there seems little doubt that
the tomb is to be dated to the mid-18 Dynasty, like nearby KV45 .
KV45 – Tomb of the vizier Userhet
The tomb was discovered on 25 February 1902 by Howard
Carter, and the excavations was made by Carter for Theodore Davis on 1902, and
by Donald Ryan for Pacific Lutheran University on 1992 .
This tomb of a high official of the 18th
Dynasty is notable as being one of the few examples of a tomb granted in the
valley to a non-royal personage ; but it is in other respects unimportant .
" Feb. 25th [ 1902 ] : Mr. Davis having
returned from Aswan, this tomb pit was opened in his presence . It proved to
have only a perpendicular shaft of about 3 meters deep, with a small chamber on
the east side at the bottom containing a burial of the 22nd Dynasty
completely destroyed by the rain water " . By : Howard Carter .
The single chamber of this tomb was found by Carter
" a third full of rubbish ", on top of which rested the remains of
two 22nd Dynasty mummies, each in a double coffin, two wooden shabti
boxes ( with small, crudely made mud shabti of two distinct types, of which
Ryan subsequently recovered a total of 44 ) and the " scattered remains of
wreaths " . The entire tomb was so badly decayed by water the Carter found
.
" it … impossible to remove anything excepting
the face of the man's mummy case " ( later modeled by Miss Jeanette R.
Buttles in company with Davis outside the tomb ) and " a small black
limestone heart scarab " inscribed for the doorkeeper of the house Merenkhons
. " On the woman ", Carter records, " nothing was found " .
From among the debris underlying the intrusive burials,
Carter recovered fragments of canopic jars inscribed for an 18th
Dynasty overseer of the fields of Amun called Userhet, evidently an original
occupant of the tomb .
Donald
Ryan's recent re-clearance uncovered " human skeletal-material and the
remains of the water-logged burials,
including hundreds of fragments of the highly decayed coffins … We also found
eighty-eight clay ushabti fragments representing at least forty-four figures
" – crudely made by pressing mud into a mould . The human remains
represented four individuals – presumably the two intrusive burials of the
Third Intermediate Period and the original New Kingdom occupants of the tomb .
The pottery recovered during Ryan's recent re-clearance would date to the
reigns of Tuthmosis IV – early Amenhotep III .
KV48 – Tomb
of the vizier Amenemipet
This is the tomb of another favoured official of the
18th Dynasty court . It contained the vizier's mummy, in good
condition, but has neither reliefs nor inscriptions .
The tomb was discovered on January 1906 by Edward
Russell Ayrton, and the excavations was made by Ayrton for Theodore Davis on
1906 .
" The shaft was about 20 feet deep by 6 feet
broad, with a comparatively large chamber, 16-17 feet by 10-11 feet by 6 feet
high, to the south-west . The tomb had been anciently plundered, but a rough
wall had been re-constructed to close the chamber door . The floor was covered
with some six inches of rubbish, and on this lay the debris from the burial
" . By : Theodore Davis and Edward Ayrton .
The
occupant of this tomb was a man, tall and well-built whose mummy had been unwrapped
and thrown on one side . On top of the rubbish in the tomb were fragments of
the coffin – coated with a black resin and decorated in yellow – together with
parts of a rough wooden chair and pieces of whitened pottery storage jars .
From the fill were recovered four magic bricks, a clay sealing from a papyrus (
bearing the inscription " Amen hears good praises " ), and some
wooden ushabtis with the titles of Amonmapt, Vizier and Governor of the Town,
painted in yellow on a surface of pitch . These identified the owner and
occupant of the burial – Amenemipet called Pairy, brother to Sennufer and mayor
of Thebes and vizier under Amenhotep II . The tomb chamber itself was undecorated,
without even a layer of stucco to fill the irregularities of the rock . For
many years its position had been lost ; its site was relocated, however, by
means of geophysical prospecting equipment, by Kent Weeks during 1985-1986 . It
has apparently not yet been reentered .
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