- KV47
EgyptianRoyalTombDetail
Name = KV47
Location = East Valley of the Kings
Date =18 December 1905
Owner =Siptah
Excavated =Edward R. Ayrton (1905 –1907 )Harry Burton (1912 –1913 )Howard Carter (1922 )
MISR Project: Mission Siptah-Ramses X (1999 – current)
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Next=KV48 Tomb KV47, located in the
Valley of the Kings inEgypt , was used for the burial ofPharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty, though Siptah's mummy was found inKV35 . KV47 was discovered onDecember 18 ,1905 byEdward R. Ayrton .Theodore M. Davis , Ayrton's sponsor, published an account of the site's discovery and excavation in1908 .Ayrton stopped his excavation in
1907 due to safety fears, andHarry Burton returned in1912 to dig further.Image gallery
References
*Davis, Theodore M. "The Tomb of Siphtah: With the Tomb of Queen Tîyi". London: Duckworth Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-7156-3073-3
External links
* [http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_861.html Theban Mapping Project: KV47] - Includes detailed maps of most of the tombs.
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