KV54

KV54 Tomb of Tutankhamun Balsamierungsdepot

KV54 (Kings ' Valley no 54), the ancient Egyptian grave number 54 in the Valley of the Kings, could be dated to the period after Tutankhamun's death due to the finds. It is also referred to as " Balsamierungsdepot ", as found Balsamierungsmaterialien, various funeral utensils and other objects.

Discovery

KV54 was discovered in December 1907 by Edward R. Ayrton, who dug from 1905 to 1908 for the U.S. lawyer Theodore M. Davis. The excavations continued until the year 1908.

Architecture

This is not a grave in the usual sense, but a small, shallow pit, which is referred to in the literature generally as " Balsamierungsdepot Tutankhamun " ( Embalming Cachette ). It is undecorated and its total size is only about two square meters.

The depot and the finds

The depot was used after the death of Tutankhamen as a deposit for the Einbalsamierungsmaterial and funeral utensils. Since, however, also still found in Other KV54, which was not affiliated with a funeral, Egyptologists came to the conclusion that here also objects had been brought, who had originally been in the course of his tomb. After the grave of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) had been robbed twice, these items were deposited in KV54 before the corridor of the royal tomb itself was again filled, closed and sealed with rubble. The remains of the Beerdingungszeremonie permitted us to conclude that at the funeral of the king eight people had to have been present.

Nicholas Reeves According took Ayrton following items: 50 bags with baking soda, 180, mummy bandages, 72 offering bowls, storage jars, the throne name Tutankhamun wore on small Tonsiegeln ( Neb cheperu - Re), linen fragments with hieratic labels from the 6th and 8th year of the reign of Tutankhamun as well as numerous animal bones that were probably left over from the funeral feast, some withered flowers wreaths, scarabs and finally a small gilded funerary mask of cardboard, which probably comes from one of two fetuses of Tutankhamun's grave. Howard Carter also mentions that even clay seals were with the imprint of the necropolis found.

Almost all the finds are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. These were evaluated in 1923 by Herbert E. Winlock, and the result in 1941 in New York under the title "Materials Used at the Embalming of Tut- ankh - amun " published. The small gold death mask of cardboard in contrast, is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and bears the inventory number. JE 39711th

Finds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York)

Linen cloth

Pottery

Long-neck bottle