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

• Superior document: Archaeopress Egyptology ; v.35
• Author: Hussein Ali Attia, Amani.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress Egyptology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 pages)

This volume presents a study of the tomb of Kha-em-hat TT 57 at Qurna, West Luxor, which dates back to the 18th Dynasty⁠ - the reign of King Amenhotep III. It is considered one of the most important Egyptian tomb discoveries, containing rare scenes and revealing development of the religious rituals...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Discovery
• Geographical position (see figures 1-3)
• Features and the plan of the tomb (see figure 4)
• Art characteristics
• A. Titles
• Division of the titles in the tomb
• Facade
• Outer court
• Main entrance
• Outer court
• Outer court
• Hall
• Hall - east wall - south side - sub scene
• Hall - south wall
• Hall - south wall
• Hall - south wall - statues in a niche
• Hall - east wall
• Hall - north wall
• Hall - south wall- statues in a niche
• Hall - west wall
• Hall - Ceiling
• Hall - ceiling
• Hall - west wall - door entrance
• Hall - west wall - door entrance
• To the passage - door thickness
• Passage - east wall
• Passage - south wall
• Passage - north wall (see figure 45)
• Passage - south wall
• Passage - west wall
• Passage - west wall
• Inner room
• Passage - ceiling
• Passage - ceiling
• Passage - ceiling
• B. Facade: Court
• II. Outer court - front door (see figure 5, 5A, 6)
• IIa. Facade - north wall (left-hand side - main entrance - see figure 7,7A)
• III. Facade - stela of purification (see figure 8, 8A)
• IV. Facade - opening of the mouth stela (right-hand side - see figure 9, 9A)
• Dimensions׃ The remaining scene is about 1.5m in height and 1m in width.
• V. Facade - north wall (right-hand side - main entrance - see figure 10, 10.A)
• VI. Entrance - door frame (see figure 11, 11A)
• VI.A Left jamb (see figure 11B)
• VI.B. Right jamb (see figure 11C)
• VI. C. South door thickness (left-hand side - see figure 12,12A)
• Transverse Hall
• Transverse Hall
• VII. East Wall (see figure 13,13A)
• VII. East wall - south side (figure 13,13A)
• VII.A Kha-em-hat is giving offerings (sunken relief - see figure 13, 13A).
• Similar scenes found in other tombs (Deceased preform rituals)
• Conclusion
• VII.B East wall - south side - lower register (sub-scene)
• VIII. Remains of storehouse scene (see figure 13,13A)
• VIII.A Kha-em-hat offerings to goddess Renenut, mistress of harvesting (see figure 15,15A)
• IX.Unloading freight ships scene (lower register right-side wall - see figure 16,16A)
• X. South wall (see figures 18-23)
• X.A South wall - east side next to statues (see figure 19,19A)
• X.B South wall - west side - next to southern statues (see figure.20, 20A)
• X.C Statues (see figure 18)
• X.D Seated woman between the legs of the statues (see figure 21,21A)
• Inscriptions on the statues
• X.E Inscription on the west side statue belongs to Im-hotep (see figure 18, 22)
• X.F Inscriptions of the east side statue belong to Kha-em-hat (see figure 22)
• X.G South wall - east jamb (left-hand side - see figure 23)
• X.H South wall - west jamb (right-hand side - see figure 23)
• XI. West wall (see figures 24,24A)
• XI.A. West wall - south side (see figure 24,24A)
• XII. East wall - north side (see figure 25-25C)
• XII.A Kha-em-hat is giving offering (see figure 25B)
• XIII. Kha-em-hat inspecting the surveying of the fields (see figure 25C)
• XIV. Hall - north wall (see figure 26, 26A)
• XV.Hall - west wall - north side (see figure 27, 27A)
• XV.A Ceiling of the transverse hall- north side (see figures 28 -30A)
• XV.B Hall - west wall - door entrance - see figures 31-31A)
• XV.C. Hall - west wall - door entrance - north door thickness (see figure 32)
• XV.D Hall - west wall - door entrance - south door thickness (see figure 33)
• Passage
• East Wall (see figures 35, 35A - 36)
• XVII. East wall - south side (see figure 36)
• Passage
• Passage - south wall (see figure 38 - 40A)
• XVIII-XIX. Funeral procession and ceremonies (see figure 40,40A).
• XVIII. Funeral procession (see figure 40,40A)
• XIX. Osiris with western goddess (see figure 38)
• XIX.A Mourners (see figure 40, 40A)
• XIX.B Cryptography (no longer exists- see figure 39)
• XIX.C. Equivelant Text
• Passage - east wall - north side
• XX. Deceased purified and acclaimed by priests (see figure 41)
• XXI-XXII Passage - north wall (see figure 42, 42A)
• XXI. Kha-em-hat on the mountain (see figure 44)
• XXII. Kha-em-hat in a worshipping attitude (see figure 45, 45A)
• Lower register
• XXII.A Abydos Pilgrimage (see figure 42,42A)
• XXIII. Passage - west wall
• XXIII.A Passage - Ceiling: (see figure 47,47A)
• Inner Room
• Inner Room
• Door way
• Inner Room
• XXIV. South niche statues (Kha-em-hat and his Mother - see figure 48, 48A)
• XXIV.A East wall next to the southern statues (see figure 49 - 49C)
• Squeezes
• XXIV.B West wall next to the southern statues (see figure 50, 51)
• XXV. Inner room - east wall (see figure 52-54)
• XXV.A East wall next to the northern statues (see figure 52 - 54)
• XXVI. North niche statues (Kha-em-hat as Maḥu with his wife Ty- see figure 55, 55A)
• XXVI.A Inner room - west wall (next to southern statues - figure 56, 56A)
• XXVI.B West wall (next to northern statues - see figure 57, 57A)
• XXVII. West niche statues (see figure 58, 58.A)
• XXVII.A Ritual of offering list
• XXVII.B The Finds
• XXVII.C Statue of Kha-em-hat in Brooklyn Museum 37.48E. (U.S.A.)
• Bibliography
• Back cover.