Isis and Nephthys adoring setting sun.
Anatomy of a Tomb: Ancient and Modern Designations for Chambers and Features
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- KV 8: Merenptah
- KV 6: Rameses IX
- KV 2: Rameses IV
- KV 7: Rameses II
- KV 9: Rameses V and Rameses VI
- KV 1: Rameses VII
- KV 34: Thutmes III
- KV 10: Amenmeses
- KV 11: Rameses III
- KV 17: Sety I
- KV 20: Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- KV 22: Amenhetep III
- KV 35: Amenhetep II
- KV 4: Rameses XI
- KV 14: Tausert and Setnakht
- KV 15: Sety II
- KV 23: Ay
- KV 25: Unknown
- KV 38: Thutmes I
- KV 3: Son of Rameses III
- KV 47: Siptah
- KV 57: Horemheb
- KV 13: Bay
- KV 16: Rameses I
- KV 19: Mentuherkhepeshef
- KV 24: Unknown
- KV 42: Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- 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 43: Thutmes IV
- 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
Period
Ownership
- Merenptah
- Rameses IX
- Rameses II
- Rameses IV
- Rameses V and Rameses VI
- Rameses VII
- Thutmes III
- Amenhetep II
- Amenhetep III
- Amenmeses
- Rameses III
- Rameses XI
- Sety I
- Thutmes I and Hatshepsut
- Ay
- Horemheb
- Sety II
- Siptah
- Son of Rameses III
- Tausert and Setnakht
- Thutmes I
- Unknown
- Bay
- Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra
- Mentuherkhepeshef
- Rameses I
- Tiye (?) or Akhenaten (?)
- Tutankhamen
- Userhat
- Amenemipet
- Amenhetep I (?)
- Maiherperi
- Rameses X
- Sit-Ra, called In (?)
- Sons of Rameses II
- Thutmes IV
- Tia'a
- Tutankhamen cache
- Yuya and Thuyu
Modern approach path leading to tomb entrance.
Sun disk adored by Isis and Nephthys.
Sculpted figure of Merenptah on cartouche-shaped lid surronded by protective mehen serpent and covered with texts and figure of king and gods.
Book of Caverns, closing scene; ba of Ra.
Book of Gates, fourth division (P)/fifth hour (H), middle register, scene 26: solar bark.
Left side of calcite plinth with lion-legged funerary bed, beneath modern blocks supporting cartouche-shaped sarcophagus lid.
Cartouche-shaped sarcophagus lid on modern supports, calcite plinth and pit emplacement.
Traces of Book of Gates, eighth division (P)/ninth hour (H); sealed gate Jd.
Book of the Earth; debris-filled gate Jb.
Book of Gates, ninth division (P)/tenth hour (H); sealed gate Jc.
Traces of Merenptah and deities; outer sarcophagus lid on modern support.
Book of Gates, first division (P)/second hour (H).
Side chamber with pair of pillars.
Beam being used to lower sarcophagus.
Benches.
Hapy, Qebehsenuef, Anubis, Thoth, Nephthys, Serqet.
Litany of Ra; modern steps and railing.
Star pattern; Book of Gates: third division (P)/fourth hour (H); Merenptah with Osiris.