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KV 50
Animal tomb (baboon, birds)

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Monkey and dog mummies (reconstruction).
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A
Entryway A
B
Chamber B
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Entryway A

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This is a small square shaft.

Condition

Cutting finished
Excavated
Undecorated

Dimensions

  • Width:

    1.11 m

  • Length:

    1.51 m

  • Area:

    1.66 m2

  • Orientation:

    208.51°

Gate B

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The gate leads into chamber B. There are traces of the original blocking.

Condition

Excavated
Cutting finished
Undecorated

Dimensions

  • Height:

    1.52 m

  • Width:

    0.79 m

  • Length:

    0.36 m

  • Area:

    0.28 m2

  • Volume:

    0.43 m3

  • Orientation:

    0° from entryway A

About

KV 50 is located in the west branch of the southwest Wadi. The tomb consists of a shaft entryway (A) and a chamber (B) and is one of the smaller pit tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was undecorated, but contained animal mummies.

KV 50 is one of a group of three adjacent tombs referred to as the "Animal Tombs." The two others are KV 51 and KV 52. The tombs are said to have belonged to pets of the king, perhaps Amenhetep II because of the proximity of his tomb (KV 35). But this theory cannot be verified. The wooden Coffin fragments could belong to an official or be parts of a coffin for an animal. The tomb was robbed in antiquity.

Dating

This site was used during the following period(s):

New Kingdom
Dynasty 18
1906: Discovery
Ayrton, Edward Russell
1906: Excavation
Ayrton, Edward Russell

Site Condition

The tomb is inaccessible and filled with debris.

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Bibliography

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. 17-18.

Helck, Wolfgang.  Königsgräbertal.  Wolfgang Helck, Eberhart Otto and Wolfhart Westendorf (eds.).  Lexikon der Ägyptologie.  7 vols. Wiesbaden, 1972-1992.  3: 522.

Reeves, Carl Nicholas.  Valley of the Kings: The Decline of a Royal Necropolis (= Studies in Egyptology).  London:  KPI, 1990. Pp. 169-170.

Weeks, Kent R. (ed.).  Atlas of the Valley of the Kings (=Publications of the Theban Mapping Project.  Cairo: American University in Cairo, 1).  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000.  Map sheet 62. 

Wilkinson, Richard H. and Carl Nicholas Reeves.  The Complete Valley of the Kings.  London:  Thames and Hudson, 1996.  P. 185.

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