KV54

KV54

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Name = KV54
Location = East Valley of the Kings
Date = December 21 1907
Owner = Tutankhamun embalming cache
Excavated = Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis
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Tomb KV54 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. It was originally excavated by Edward R. Ayrton on behalf of the American lawyer Theodore M. Davis, who funded the work.

ite history

Not so much a tomb but a small pit located near the tomb of Seti I, it contained about a dozen large sealed storage jars. Within the jars were contained assorted equipment and objects that had been carefully packed. It contained pottery, dishes, bags of natron, animal bones, floral collars and linen containing text dated to the final years of the then little-known pharaoh Tutankhamun.

In 1909 Davis donated the finds he was allowed to take out of Egypt (the contents of six of the storage jars) [Forbes, Dennis C. Tombs, Treasures, Mummies: Seven Great Discoveries of Egyptian Archaeology. p.517 KMT Communications, Inc. 1998. ISBN 1-879388-00-7] , which were of little intrinsic value, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, [Forbes, Dennis C. Tombs, Treasures, Mummies: Seven Great Discoveries of Egyptian Archaeology. p.321 KMT Communications, Inc. 1998. ISBN 1-879388-00-7] where they currently reside and are on display. Davis declared to the press that he had found the tomb of Tutankhamun, and he published his findings in a book called The "Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatankhamanou" (using the then-current French spellings for the pharaohs Horemheb and Tutankhamun respectively) in 1912.

One of the critical finds from KV54 was a piece of linen marked with hieratic text saying "The good god, Lord of the Two Lands, Nebkheperure [the Prenomen of Tutankhamun] , beloved of Min. Linen of year 6." [Bickerstaffe, Dylan. "Embalming Caches in The Valley of the Kings", KMT. p.48. Summer 2007.] Recognizing that KV54 did not represent Tutankhamun's actual tomb, and that it "did" signal the existence of a yet-to-be discovered tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter, who would eventually find the real Tomb of Tutankhamun, corresponded with the Metropolitan's Egyptological Director Herbert Winlock on this subject in 1915. [Bickerstaffe, Dylan. "Embalming Caches in The Valley of the Kings", KMT. p.48. Summer 2007.]

In 1923, Winlock, who had subsequently found similar contents in other excavations throughout the Theban necropolis, instead identified the contents of KV54 not as an actual tomb, but an embalming cache, representing the refuse left over from the mummification of the pharaoh, rather than his "tomb". The food and other related items likely came from a funerary banquet held at the pharaoh's interment. He estimated that there had been a total of eight official mourners who had attended the burial. [Forbes, Dennis C. Tombs, Treasures, Mummies: Seven Great Discoveries of Egyptian Archaeology. p.322 KMT Communications, Inc. 1998. ISBN 1-879388-00-7]

When Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, similar items were found in the entrance corridor, [Reeves, Nicholas. Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Valley of the Kings. Thames & Hudson. 1997. (Reprint) ISBN 0-500-05080-5] and it is thought that after the first robbery attempt of the tomb, the embalming cache material was moved to the pit that was KV54, and the corridor filled with rocky debris in order to stop any future robbery attempts.


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References

*Davis, Theodore M. The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou. London: Duckworth Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-7156-3072-5
*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
*Winlock, H.E. Materials Used in the Embalming of King Tut-ankh-Amun, 1941, New York.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_868.html Theban Mapping Project: KV54] – Plans of the tomb and other details .


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