Tomb of Kha-em-hat of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Western Thebes (TT 57)

Contents

Introduction ;
Discovery ;
Geographical position ;
Features and the plan of the tomb ;
Art characteristics ;

Chapter I ;
A. Titles ;
Division of the titles in the tomb ;
B. Facade: Court ;
II. Outer court - front door ;
III. Facade - stela of purification ;
IV. Facade - opening of the mouth stela ;
V. Facade - north wall ;
VI. Entrance - door frame ;

Chapter II: Transverse Hall ;
Transverse Hall ;
VII. East Wall ;
VII. East wall - south side ;
VIII. Remains of storehouse scene ;
VIII. A Kha-em-hat offerings to Goddess Renenut, Mistress of harvesting ;
IX. Unloading freight ships scene (lower register right-side wall) ;
X. South wall ;
XI. West wall ;
XII. East wall - north side ;
XIII. Kha-em-hat inspecting the surveying of the fields ;
XIV. Hall - north wall ;
XV. Hall - west wall - north side ;

Chapter III: Passage ;
Passage ;
XVII. East wall - south side ;
XVIII-XIX. South wall - funeral procession and ceremonies ;
XIX. Osiris with western goddess ;
Passage - east wall - north side ;
XX. Deceased purified and acclaimed by priests ;
XXI-XXII Passage - north wall ;
XXII. Kha-em-hat in a worshipping attitude ;
XXI. Kha-em-hat on the mountain ;
XXIII. Door entrance ;

Chapter IV: Inner Room ;
Inner Room ;
XXIV. South niche statues (Kha-em-hat and his Mother) ;
XXV. Inner room - east wall ;
XXVI. North niche statues ;
XXVII. West niche statues ;
Conclusion ;
Scene analysis ;

Bibliography

About the Author

Amani Hussein graduated from the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University (1990) and received her PhD in 2019 from Helwan University, Cairo. She is a department member at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen.