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THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
(The Boy King)
THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
• History:– New Kingdom Pharaoh– 18th Dynasty– Became king at age 9– Died at age 18.– Only intact burial of an Egyptian Pharaoh– Tomb Location: Valley of The Kings
THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
• Discovery of Tomb:– Howard Carter: British
Archaeologist– Spent 7 years looking
for tomb in Valley.– By trade an artist.
• Got his start working on digs as an artist.
The Tomb Of King Tutankhamun
• Howard Carter:• Previous work:
– 1893: Deir el Bahari: Temple of Hatshepsut
– 1900: Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Egypt
– 1905: Began work for Lord Carnarvon
– 1917-1929: Tut’s tomb.
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• Lord Carnarvon– Wealthy private
collector– Financed
archaeological digs– Valuable collection of
Egyptian Artifacts– He financed Carter’s
digs. Beginning in 1905.
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• Valley of the Kings:– Location: Upper Egypt– Burial spot for New Kingdom Pharaohs.– Two areas: East Valley and West Valley– Most tombs in East Valley– Thutmose III, one of earliest tombs in Valley.– Tut’s tomb is adjacent to Rameses VI tomb
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• Valley of the Kings:• Tut’s burial: KV62• Barren region• Stop tomb robbers?
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• The Tomb:– Small– Probably for someone of lesser rank– 4 rooms and a passageway– 4 doorways– Staircase leads to passageway
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• The Tomb:– The rooms:
• Antechamber• Annex• Burial Chamber• Treasury
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Burial Chamber:
• The only part of the tomb with wall paintings.
• One depicts: Opening of Mouth Ceremony
• Senses are
restored to Tut.• Performed by Ay,
his successor
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Ay
Tut
Tut in burial garments
OPENING of the MOUTH CEREMONY
TUTS TOMB
• Burial Chamber:– Only room in the entire
structure that is decorated.
– Back wall painting
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Pictures
Burial Chamber
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• Burial Chamber:– 4 gilded shrines inside one
another.– Stone sarcophagus: inside
were 3 coffins• Innermost coffin: solid
gold• Inside this coffin was
Tut with golden mask.
TUTS TOMB• Arrangement of Coffins:
– (1)First Coffin• It is made of Cypress wood
overlaid with gold foil
– (2)Second Coffin• This coffin of finer workmanship
than the preceding, was also made of wood covered in gold foil
– (3)Third Coffin• It is made of solid gold and
weights 110.4 kg.
– (4)The Mummy• It was decorated with near 150
amulets, jewels and the superb golden mask inlaid with wonderful glass
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• Outer Sarcophagus– Weight 1 ¼ tons
TUTS TOMB• Burial Chamber:
– Third Coffin: Solid gold, weighs 243 lbs and is 74 inches in length. This coffin contained the mummy of the young pharaoh, covered by the famous mask. It was placed within a second coffin, made of wood covered in gold foil, which in turn was set within the first, outermost, coffin, also made of wood covered in gold foil.
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• Burial Chamber– Third Coffin:
Image of sun above coffin
TUTS TOMB• Burial Chamber:
– Burial Mask: Made of solid gold, placed directly upon the pharaoh's mummy. Function: protection.
• Weight: 24 lbs. • On the forehead of the mask are a royal
uraeus and a vulture's head:– symbols of the two deities of Lower and
Upper Egypt: Wadjet and Nekhbet.
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• Burial Chamber– Gold/Wood Shrines
• Covered with thick gold foil, set on a wooden sledge
• 4 Shrines one inside the other
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• Antechamber:– Contained: chariots,
food, funeral couches, thrones, two black guardian figures.
– This area was seen first by Carter.
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• Antechamber
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• Antechamber– Life sized statues: 2 stood
guard by the sealed door to burial chamber
– made of wood, painted with black resin and overlaid with gold in parts.
– They depict the pharaoh
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• Antechamber– Golden Throne:
• Scene from back of throne
• Made of wood covered with sheet gold, and adorned with semiprecious stones and colored glass paste.
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• Antechamber– Rams Head
– Head of Tut:• On wood
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• ANNEX
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• ANNEX– Shabti Figures
• 413 shabtis was found • In both annex and
treasury• About 12 in. in height
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• Treasury– Statuette of goddess
Selkis• Made of gilded wood • one of the four
protective deities of the outer canopy of the Canopic Shrine containing the viscera of the deceased pharaoh
TUTS TOMB• Treasury
– Canopic Shrine of Tutankhamen.
• The goddess Isis
• Within this a series of smaller shrines, of gilded wood and calcite.
• Within the Canopic chest itself were four gold coffinettes, with the viscera of the pharaoh.
Close up of canopic jar lids
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• The Treasury:• Adjacent to burial
chamber.• Needs of afterlife:
– Boats, gilded figures, canopic chest, protective figure of Anubis.
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• King Tut’s unwrapped Mummy:– 5’ 4” tall– Died between age 17-
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