The
ancient Egyptian noble Userhet was buried in tomb
KV45 in the
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...
. He probably lived during the rule of
Thutmose IV. Amongst his titles was ''Overseer of the Fields 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 Egypt ...
''.
[Brian Murray Fagan, ''The Oxford Companion to Archaeology'', 1996, p.738] He presumably received the honour of a burial in the royal
necropolis
A necropolis (plural necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek ''nekropolis'', literally meaning "city of the dead".
The term usually im ...
because of his rank.
References
Officials of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
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