The Theban Tomb TT176 is located in

El-Khokha The necropolis of El-Khokha () is located on the west bank of the river Nile at Thebes, Egypt. The necropolis is surrounds a hill and has five Old Kingdom tombs and over 50 tombs from the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties as well as some from the F ...

, part of the

Theban Necropolis The Theban Necropolis () is a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, Egypt, Thebes (Luxor) in Upper Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of the Ancient Egypt, Pharaonic period, especially during the New Kingdom of Egyp ...

, on the west bank of the

Nile The Nile (also known as the Nile River or River Nile) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the List of river sy ...

, opposite to

Luxor Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt. Luxor had a population of 263,109 in 2020, with an area of approximately and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited c ...

. TT177 was the burial place of the

Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

ian official named Userhat, who was a ''servant of Amun, clean of hands''. He lived in the 18th Dynasty under the reign 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 ...

and

Thutmose IV Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; Ancient Egyptian: ''ḏḥwti.msi(.w)'' "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately t ...

. His tomb chapel is very small and today much destroyed. The decoration of the chapel is painted. At the very back there is a decorated niche with an unfinished painted decoration. The German scholar Siegfried Schott took around between 1920 and 1930 some photographic pictures and Davies copied some tomb scenes. In 1994 and 1995 the tomb was fully recorded by Bram Calcoen who published the results of her work together with Christiane Müller-Hazenbos. Scenes in the tomb include depictions of the travel to Abydos, a banquet scene, rituals in front of Userhat; Userhat in front of offering tables and fragments of a harvest scene.Bram Calcoen, Christiane Müller-Hazenbos: ''Leben im Tod, Die Grabkapelle des Userhat'', in: ''Antike Welt'', 2/14 (2014), pp. 66–70

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The tomb on Osirisnet
{{DEFAULTSORT:TT176 Theban tombs Buildings and structures of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

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