Valley of the Kings - KV35
tomb of Amenhotep II - XVIIIth Dynasty
The
tomb discovered 9 March1898
by
Victor Loret. The sequence of corridors, stairways
and chambers is essentially the same as KV34, a room is added at the
base of the well shaft; a corridor now separates the stair from the
first pillared hall and the new, rectangular burial chamber with six
pillars and a lower part usually referred to as the crypt, because of
the siting here of the royal sarcophagus.
The walls in burial chamber decorated with frieze
and scenes from the Amduat; pillars with king before Osiris, Anubis and
Hathor, gold stars on blue ceiling. |
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A - entrance steps |
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In the first of the side rooms located to the right of the burial chamber (Jc), Loret encountered three stripped corpses without coffins. The second side chamber, (Jb) - partially blocked with stones which had originally been employed in Year 13, probably of Smendes, to close off the entrance to the burial chamber - held a further nine bodies, the greatest pharaos of XVIII & XIX Dynasties. |
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