The Theban Tomb TT23 is located in

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna The necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna () is located on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is part of the archaeological area of Deir el-Bahari, and named after the domed tomb of the local saint. This is the most frequently v ...

, part of the

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, on the west bank of the

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, opposite to

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. It is the burial place of the

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ian official, Tjay or Thay called To, who was a royal

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of the dispatches of the Lord of the Two Lands, during the

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. Thay served during the reign of

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. Thay was the son of the scribe of soldiers Khaemteri and Tamy. Two wives are mentioned in TT23. Thay is shown with a wife named Raya, who was chief of the harem of

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and another wife who is called Nebettawy. Within the tomb there is an image of a scene showing the tomb owner being rewarded while before

.Lise Manniche �
"Lost Ramessid and Post-Ramessid Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis"
''Volume 33 of

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publications'', Museum Tusculanum Press 1 Jan 2011, 112 pages, etrieved 2015-07-11/ref>

References

Theban Tombs – A list of the tombs and tomb-chapels allotted numbers
University College London 2013 (shows : Tjay – TT23)

External links

* Scans of Norman and Nina De Garis Davies

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'' – shows 27 photographs of the tomb, (Beware: some of the photographs presented in this webpage are not from TT 23 but of nearby tomb TT 107 of Nefershekheru, royal scribe during the reign of Amenhotep III.) {{DEFAULTSORT:TT023 Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century BC Theban tombs

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