DISCOVERED, LOST, REDISCOVERED: USERHAT AND KHONSUEMHEB
Photo after Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, vol. 4.
Below: the image of Queen Tiye from TT 47, now in the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire in Brussels.
unknown, unfinished tomb KHT 01, hewn out on the south wall of the forecourt (image p. 26. top). After entering, we found a part of yet another tomb, connected to KHT 01. This latter structure is beautifully decorated and in a good state of preservation. On stylistic grounds, we dated it to the Ramesside Period (image p. 26). The owner of the tomb we identified as Khonsuemheb, ‘Chief of the Storehouse of Mut’ as well as ‘Chief Brewer of the Temple of Mut’. His wife, Mutemheb, was a ‘Singer of Mut’, as was their daughter, Isetkha. His son Ashakhet bore the title of ‘Wab -priest of Mut’ and, like his father, was a ‘Chief Brewer of the Temple of Mut’. The tomb of Khonsuemheb has a T-shaped plan. Most of the walls and ceilings of the transverse hall are decorated. On the side wall of its northern part, we discovered statues of Khonsuemheb, Mutemheb and ‘her’ daughter Isetkha (probably implying that this was Mutemheb’s second marriage). On the eastern wall of the northern part of the transverse hall are depicted the funerary procession and the opening of the mou th cer emony for Khonsuemheb. Opposite, on the western wall, Khonsuemheb and his wife make adoration to Osiris and Anubis on the upper register, while his sons Ashaket and Penamun make offerings to Khonsuemheb and his wife on the lower.
Rear wall of the transverse hall in the tomb of Userhat.
Photo: Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University
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