These are all small uninscribed tomb, of no interest
to the visitor . Nos. 50, 51, and 52 contained the mummified bodies of royal
pets, monkeys, dogs, an ibis, and some ducks, so they called " The Animal
Tombs " .
KV49
The tomb was discovered on January 1906 by Edward
Russell Ayrton, and the excavations was made by Ayrton for Theodore Davis on
1906 .
" The only objects in the room were a few scraps
of mummy-cloth and fragments of the large whitened jars which occur in burials
of the 18th Dynasty . Plunderers had dug a small pit in the second
stairway to search for a further door … " . By : Theodore Davis and Edward
Russell Ayrton .
KV49
appears to be a typical corridor tomb of mid-18th Dynasty date . The
doorway still preserves the remains of a dry stone wall covered with gritty
white plaster ; this wall, the sherds from the large whitened jars mentioned in
the quote above and some fragments of cloth noted by Davis and Ayrton are
perhaps connected with the two hieratic graffiti, noted above the entrance by
Ayrton, written when the tomb was employed as a storeroom for temple linen at
the end of the New Kingdom . It is presumably to this period also that an
ostracon found by Ayrton and several rough gaming boards with incised grids are
to be assigned .
The Animal Tombs .. KV50 - KV51 - KV52
These tombs are located in the west branch of the
southwest wadi Biban el-Muluk . And
they was discovered on January 1906 by Edward Russell Ayrton, and the
excavations was made by Ayrton for Theodore Davis on 1906 .
" The children never forget their trip over to
the Valley of the Kings and a visit to Davis's Animal Tombs . They were carried
down the shaft of … [ KV50], into a chamber that was very low and extremely
warm . They both laughed in their delight at the sight of a yellow dog of
ordinary life size, standing on its feet, his short tail curled over his back, and
with his eyes wide open . The animal looked alive " . By : Joseph Lindon
Smith .
The
Valley of the Kings was the final resting place not only for the family and
favoured officials of the king, but seemingly of his pets also . A group of
three tombs discovered in January 1906 by Edward Ayrton for Theodore Davis
appear to represent the pet cemetery of a single animal–loving pharaoh –
perhaps Amenhotep II, close to whose own place of burial, KV35, the animal
tombs are located . All the animals seem originally to have been mummified and
wrapped ( sometimes with jewellery ) in the same way as a human corpse, and in
most cases supplied with a coffin . Furthermore, from within KV51 Ayrton
recovered a stucco canopic-package mask, and from KV52 an empty canopic chest .
All the tombs had been entered in antiquity and despoiled ; the entrance doorway
to the burial chamber of KV51 had been re-blocked with bits of stone, and part
of the disused lid of a mummy coffin, presumably following an official
inspection .
KV53
The tomb was discovered on January 1905-1906 by Edward
Russell Ayrton, and the excavations was made by Ayrton for Theodore Davis on
1905-1906 .
KV53,
now inaccessible and never formally planned, is apparently a small,
single-chambered shaft tomb . Its clearance by Edward Ayrton resulted in the
discovery of a series of limestone ostraca and a limestone stela dedicated to
the serpent goddess Meretseger ( She who loves silence ) by the chief Deir
el-Medina scribe, Hori . Other associated ostraca had been built into one of
the 20th Dynasty workmen's huts later erected over the mouth of the
tomb – when the tomb was presumably entered .
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