Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
What was in a royal tomb?
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- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 02: Rameses IV
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- KV 43: Thutmes IV
- KV 44: Unknown
- KV 45: Userhat
- KV 55: Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- KV 62: Tutankhamen
- KV 12: Unknown
- KV 18: Rameses X
- KV 21: Unknown
- KV 26: Unknown
- KV 27: Unknown
- KV 28: Unknown
- KV 29: Unknown
- KV 30: Unknown
- KV 31: Unknown
- KV 32: Tia'a
- KV 33: Unknown
- KV 36: Maiherperi
- KV 37: Unknown
- KV 39: Amenhetep I (?)
- KV 40: Unknown
- KV 41: Unknown
- KV 46: Yuya and Thuyu
- KV 48: Amenemipet
- KV 49: Unknown
- KV 50: Unknown
- KV 51: Unknown
- KV 52: Unknown
- KV 53: Unknown
- KV 54: Tutankhamen cache
- KV 56: Unknown
- KV 58: Unknown
- KV 59: Unknown
- KV 5: Sons of Rameses II
- KV 60: Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- KV 61: Unknown
- KV F: Unknown
Period
Ownership
- Rameses IV
- Merenptah
- Rameses IX
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Amenhetep III
- Rameses II
- Rameses VII
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep II
- Amenmeses
- Rameses III
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Unknown
- Ay
- Horemheb
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Bay
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Rameses I
- Thutmes IV
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Decoration
Badawy, Alexander. Les dessins architectural chez les anciens Égyptiens: Étude comparative des representations égyptienne de constructions. Cairo: Government Press, 1048. P. 195.
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Carter, Howard and Alan H. Gardiner. The Tomb of Ramesses IV and the Turin Plan of a Royal Tomb. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. London 4 (1917): 130-158.
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Cauville, Sylvie and Mohammed Ibrahim Ali. La Vallée des Rois: Itinéraire du Visiteur. Leuven: Peeters, 2014. Pp. 171-204.
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Chabas, Françpos Joseph. Sur un plan égyptien d’un tombeau royal à Thèbes. Mélanges égyptologiques 3, 2 (Chalon-sur-Saône, 1862-1873): 175-202.
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Daressy, Georges. Un plan égyptien d’une tombe royale. Revue Archéologique, sér. 3, 32 (1898): 235-240.
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Davis, Theodore M., Gaston Maspero, Edward Ayrton, Georges Daressy and E. H. Jones. The Tomb of Siphtah (= Theodore M. Davis' Excavations, Biban el Moluk, 4). London, 1908. Pp. 6-7, 28.
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Demichelis, Sara. Le Projet Initial de la Tombe de Ramsès IV? Papyrus de Turin CGC 55002. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 131 (2004): 114-133.
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Foundation Deposits
While more commonly found in association with temple constructions, foundation deposits also have been unearthed at some royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Funerary Compositions
From the end of Dynasty 5 onward, religious texts were inscribed in the burial chambers of royal tombs.
Helck, Wolfgang. Königsgräbertal. In: Wolfgang Helck, Eberhart Otto and Wolfhart Westendorf (eds.). Lexikon der Ägyptologie. 7 vols. Wiesbaden, 1972-1992. (1980), 3: 515.
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Historical Development of the Valley of the Kings
The reasons New Kingdom kings chose the East Valley of the Kings for their burials are unclear.
History of the Valley of the Kings: Third Intermediate Period to the Byzantine Period
At the end of the New Kingdom, Egypt entered a period of political and economic decline.
Hornung, Erik. The Tomb of Rameses IV. In: Kent R. Weeks (ed.), The Treasures of the Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Temples of the Theban West Bank at Luxor. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001. Pp. 240-243.
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Keller, Cathleen. The Draughtsmen of Deir el-Medina: A Preliminary Report. Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 115 (1981): 7-21.
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Keller, Cathleen. Two Painters of the Tomb of Ramesses IV. Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 99/100 (1977):16.
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