The Theban Tomb TT23 is located in

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna The necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ( ar, شيخ عبدالقرنة) is located on the West Bank at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is part of the archaeological area of Deir el-Bahari, and named after the domed tomb of the local saint. This is the mo ...

, 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

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, 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 ...

. It is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian official, Tjay or Thay called To, who was a royal

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

of the dispatches of the Lord of the Two Lands, during the

19th Dynasty The Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XIX), also known as the Ramessid dynasty, is classified as the second Dynasty of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom period, lasting from 1292 BC to 1189 BC. The 19th Dynasty and the 20th Dynasty fur ...

. Thay served during the reign of

Merenptah Merneptah or Merenptah (reigned July or August 1213 BC – May 2, 1203 BC) was the fourth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled Egypt for almost ten years, from late July or early August 1213 BC until his death on May 2, 1 ...

. Thay was the son of the scribe of soldiers Khaemteri and Tamy. Two wives are mentioned in TT23. Thay is shown with a wife named Raya, who was chief of the harem of

Sobek Sobek (also called Sebek or Sobki, cop, Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, Souk) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile and is represented either in its f ...

and another wife who is called Nebettawy. Within the tomb there is an image of a scene showing the tomb owner being rewarded while before

.Lise Manniche
Lost Ramessid and Post-Ramessid Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis
''Volume 33 of Carsten Niebuhr Institute publications'', Museum Tusculanum Press 1 Jan 2011, 112 pages, etrieved 2015-07-11/ref>

References

Theban Tombs - A list of the tombs and tomb-chapels allotted numbers
University College London 2013 (shows : Tjay - TT23)

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Scans of Norman and Nina De Garis Davies

B.M. Adams

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'' - shows 27 photographs of the tomb, (Beware: some of the photohraphs presented in this webpage are not from TT 23 but of nearby tomb TT 107 of Nefershekheru, royal scribe during the reign of Amenhotep III.) Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century BC Theban tombs {{AncientEgypt-stub

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