The
Theban Tomb TT176 is located in
El-Khokha
The necropolis of El-Khokha ( ar, الخوخه) is located on the west bank of the river Nile at Thebes, Egypt. The necropolis is surrounds a hill and has five Old Kingdom tombs and over 50 tombs from the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties as well as ...
, part of the
Theban Necropolis
The Theban Necropolis is a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (Luxor) in Upper Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of the Pharaonic period, especially during the New Kingdom.
Mortuary temples
* Deir el-Bahri ...
, on the west bank of the
Nile
The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...
, opposite to
Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
.
TT177 was the burial place of the
Ancient Egyptian official named Userhat, who was a ''servant of Amun, clean of hands''. He lived in the 18th Dynasty under the reign of
Amenhotep II
Amenhotep II (sometimes called ''Amenophis II'' and meaning ''Amun is Satisfied'') was the seventh pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Amenhotep inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few militar ...
and
Thutmose IV
Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; egy, ḏḥwti.msi(.w) "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century ...
.
His tomb chapel is very small and today much destroyed. The decoration of the chapel is painted. At the very back there is a decorated niche with an unfinished painted decoration. The German scholar Siegfried Schott took around between 1920 and 1930 some photographic pictures and Davies copied some tomb scenes. In 1994 and 1995 the tomb was fully recorded by Bram Calcoen who published the results of her work together with Christiane Müller-Hazenbos.
Scenes in the tomb include depictions of the travel to Abydos, a banquet scene, rituals in front of Userhat; Userhat in front of offering tables and fragments of a harvest scene.
[Bram Calcoen, Christiane Müller-Hazenbos: ''Leben im Tod, Die Grabkapelle des Userhat'', in: ''Antike Welt'', 2/14 (2014), p. 66-70]
See also
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List of Theban tombs
The Theban Necropolis is located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor, in Egypt. As well as the more famous royal tombs located in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, there are numerous other tombs, more commonly referred ...
References
External links
The tomb on Osirisnet
Theban tombs
Buildings and structures of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
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