Are unidentified and uninscribed, but KV60 was known
for the nurse " Sit-Ra, called In ", and it contained burials of
the nurses of Tuthmosis IV or Hatshepsut .
KV60
The tomb was discovered on spring 1903 by Howard
Carter, and the excavations was made on 1903 by Carter, also on 1906 by Edward
Russell Ayrton for Theodore Davis, also on 1989 by Donald Ryan for Pacific
Lutheran University .
" A small uninscribed tomb, immediately in the
entrance of No. 19 ( tomb of Ment-hi-khopesh-ef ) . It consists of a very rough
flight of steps leading down to a passage of 5 meters long, ending in a low and
rough square chamber, about 4X5 meters, which contained the remains of a much
destroyed and rifled burial . Nothing was in this tomb but two much denuded
mummies of women and some mummified geese " . By : Howard Carter .
Howard Carter, following his brief examination, seems
to have reclosed the tomb, only for it to be stumbled upon yet again by Edward
Ayrton, conducting a clearance of KV19 ( Mentuherkhepshef ), in 1906 when one
of the mummies – that of Hatshepsut's wetnurse, Sitre In – was removed to the Cairo
Museum . Donald Ryan's recent re-clearance of KV60 revealed the tomb in much
the same state Carter and Ayrton must have left it, with mummified
food-provisions scattered about and, near the centre of the burial chamber, the
second mummy, its right arm crossed over the breast in a queen-like pose . The
woman had had long hair ( found lying on the floor beneath the now-bald head ),
and had, in life, been quite fat, with well-worm teeth ( indicating an older
individual ) . Because of her obesity, the body had been eviscerated through
the pelvic floor, rather than through the abdomen . Elizabeth Thomas had
believed that this body might well be the mummy of Hatshepsut herself – a
possibility the position of the arms does nothing to deny .
Several fragments of funerary equipment were recovered
by Ryan, including coffin surfaces which had been hacked off with an adze in
antiquity to remove gold-foil overlay . Interestingly, none of the pottery
fragments recovered from the tomb can be dated earlier than the 20th
Dynasty . We may perhaps assume that KV60 had been stumbled upon at the time
KV19 was quarried, when it was employed as a storeroom . If so, one or both
mummies had perhaps been introduced only subsequently, at the end of the New
Kingdom when the burials in the valley were being rationalized .
Following Ryan's clearance, we now know that the plan
of this tomb is more irregular and somewhat more complex than previously
thought . Steep and roughly cut steps lead down to a single corridor with
crudely fashioned niches, each with a roughly drawn wedjat-eye, one looking in
towards the burial chamber and the other looking outwards to the tomb entrance
. The burial chamber itself is asymmetrical and perhaps unfinished . Virtually
all surfaces within the tomb are roughly and irregularly cut, and this alone
would seem to preclude the structure having been intended originally for an
immediate member of the royal family .
KV61
The tomb was discovered on January 1910 by Ernest
Harold Jones, and the excavations was made by Harold Jones for Theodore Davis
on 1910 but no report published .
When it was first uncovered by Harold Jones in January
1910, this small and irregularly-shaped pit tomb " showed every
possibility of being a find, the filling of the pit appearing undisturbed and
the floor … completely built up with stones to the top . However, after two
days work we cleared to the top of the door of the chamber, and on peering
inside saw that there was but a small, ill-hewn chamber half filled with debris
… The work was carefully proceeded with till every corner of the tomb was bare
and bare were the results – for never even a potsherd was found " .
The likelihood is that Jones had uncovered a literally
virgin private tomb, blocked off by the quarrymen after completion to prevent
the chamber filling up with sand before it could be employed . But the
anticipated burial never came .
Good bye ..... and wait us in another location
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