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Tombs : KV37 – KV40 – KV41 – KV44 - KV45 - KV48 .. Part ( 34 )

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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