The
Theban Tomb TT97 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, on the west bank of the
Nile, opposite to
Luxor. The tomb belongs to an
ancient Egyptian named
Amenemhat, who was the
High Priest of Amun at
Karnak, during the reign of pharaoh
Amenhotep II of the
18th Dynasty. Amenemhat was the son of the ''wab''-priest and "Overseer of the sandal makers of
Amun
Amun (; also ''Amon'', ''Ammon'', ''Amen''; egy, jmn, reconstructed as (Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian) → (later Middle Egyptian) → (Late Egyptian), cop, Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, Amoun) romanized: ʾmn) was a major ancient Egyptian ...
", Djehutyhotep.
The tomb consists of a hall, a passage and an inner room. The hall is decorated with scenes depicting an inspection and offerings. The hall shows scenes of a funeral procession and a priest and
lector before the mummy of the deceased. The ceiling is inscribed with offering texts. The inner room contains a
stele
A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...
with an autobiographical text, scenes of purification, offerings, and a pillar contains traces of a hymn.
In a burial chamber the coffin of a royal sandal maker of Amun, named Thu was found. The coffin is thought to date to the
18th Dynasty.
Amenemhat is attested by several
funerary cones now exhibited at the
University College, London (UC 37551) and in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
[C. W. Hayes, ''The Scepter of Egypt II'', p. 147]
See also
*
List of Theban tombs
References
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Theban tombs