the tomb of king tutankhamun

THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN

(The Boy King)


• 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


• 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.

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• 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.


• 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


• Valley of the Kings:• Tut’s burial: KV62• Barren region• Stop tomb robbers?


• The Tomb:– Small– Probably for someone of lesser rank– 4 rooms and a passageway– 4 doorways– Staircase leads to passageway


• The Tomb:– The rooms:

• Antechamber• Annex• Burial Chamber• Treasury


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


Ay

Tut

Tut in burial garments

OPENING of the MOUTH CEREMONY

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• Burial Chamber:– Only room in the entire

structure that is decorated.

– Back wall painting

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Burial Chamber


• 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


• 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


• 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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