KV13

EgyptianRoyalTombDetail
Name = KV13
Location = East Valley of the Kings
Date = Open in antiquity
Owner = Bay – later Amenherkhepshef and Mentuherkhepsef| Excavated = Hartwig Altenmüller
Prev=KV12
Next=KV14

Tomb KV13, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Bay of the Nineteenth Dynasty. An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO in 2000 records that Chancellor Bay was executed by pharaoh Siptah. [Pierre Grandet, "L'execution du chancelier Bay O.IFAO 1864", BIFAO 100(2000), pp.339-345 ] Consequently, Bay was never buried in his tomb. Moreover, no funerary goods were found in the tomb belonging to Bay. It was later reused by Amenherkhepshef and Mentuherkhepsef of the Twentieth Dynasty.

References

*Reeves, N & Wilkinson, R.H. The Complete Valley of the Kings, 1996, Thames and Hudson, London.
*Siliotti, A. Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples, 1996, A.A. Gaddis, Cairo.

External links

* [http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_827.html Theban Mapping Project: KV13] - Includes description, images and plans of the tomb.