Tomb KV48 is an

ancient Egyptian tomb The ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included Mummy, mummifying the body, casting magic spells, and burials with specific grave ...

located in the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and power ...

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. It was discovered in 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis, and contained the robbed burial of the

Eighteenth Dynasty The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. The Eighteenth Dynasty ...

noble Amenemipet called Pairy. It was re-excavated in 2009 by a team from the Pacific Lutheran University.

Location, discovery, and contents

The tomb is located to the west of the animal tombs

KV51 Tomb KV51 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. It was discovered in 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. The tomb, together with KV50 and KV52 forms a group of three known as the "Animal Tombs". It conta ...

and

KV52 Tomb KV52 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. It was discovered in 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis. Together with KV50 and KV51 it forms a group known as the "Animal Tombs", it contained a mummi ...

, on the southern side of the ''

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'' that leads towards

KV35 Tomb KV35 is the burial place of Amenhotep II, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Later, it was used as a cache for other royal mummies. It was discovered by Victor Loret in March 1898. L ...

, the tomb of

Amenhotep II Amenhotep II (sometimes called Amenophis II and meaning "Amun is Satisfied") was the seventh pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few military campaigns i ...

. The tomb consists of a shaft approximately deep that opens to the southwest to a relatively large chamber measuring ; the doorway had been roughly blocked with a wall of stacked stones. The walls were not plastered or smoothed. The floor was covered in of debris including broken objects, coffin fragments with yellow on black decoration, pieces of a wooden chair, sherds of white-washed pottery, and a mud seal bearing the inscription 'Amun hears good praises.' The unwrapped and broken mummy of the owner of the tomb was found thrown to one side; Ayrton describes him as "tall and well-built." The presence of three inscribed mud bricks wrapped in resin-coated fabric and fragments of a fourth (so-called magical bricks), along with a number of wooden

ushabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of " ...

allowed him to be identified as the

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and

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of Thebes, Amenemipet.

Re-investigation

The tomb was part of the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings expedition’s work in 2009. The expedition was led by Donald P. Ryan. The tomb was recorded and excavated and is awaiting publication.

References

External links

Theban Mapping Project: KV48
includes detailed maps of most of the tombs. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kv48 1906 archaeological discoveries Valley of the Kings