The Theban Tomb TT410 is located in

El-Assasif El-Assasif () is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'. El-Assasif contains burials from the Eighteent ...

, 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

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, opposite to

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. The tomb belongs to Mutirdis, the chief companion lady of the

God's Wife of Amun God's Wife of Amun ( Egyptian: ''ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn'') was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt. The cult was centered in Thebes in Upper Egypt during the Twenty-fifth and Twen ...

during the time of

Nitocris I Nitocris I (alt. Nitiqret, Nitokris I) (died 585 BC) served as the heir to, and then, as the Divine Adoratrice of Amun or God's Wife of Amun for a period of more than seventy years, between 655 BC and 585 BC.Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complet ...

, and

Psamtik I Wahibre Psamtik I (Ancient Egyptian: ) was the first pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, the Saite period, ruling from the city of Sais in the Nile delta between 664 and 610 BC. He was installed by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian E ...

of the

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Jan Assmann Johann Christoph "Jan" Assmann (7 July 1938 – 19 February 2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion scholar. Life and works Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göt ...

: ''Das Grab der Mutirdis.'' (Reihe: ''Archäologische Veröffentlichungen'' Bd. 13), von Zabern, Mainz 1977, . The tomb is located in the area of the royal tombs 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 ...

. The nearby monumental tombs of the Late Period have been noted for their special features.

Family

Mutirdis was the daughter of the God's Father and Beloved of the God Pahabu. In the tomb two mothers are mentioned. The lady of the house Asetenpermesut is likely her birth mother. The Chief female attendant of the Divine Adoratrice Qapamaaupairdis is also said to be her mother, but this lady may be an adoptive parent who later passed on her position as chief female attendant to Mutirdis. The inscriptions in the tomb do not mention a husband, but Mutirdis is said to have had a son and three daughters. Her son was a chamberlain to the Divine Adoratrice, and her daughters all served as attendants.Jean Li, ''Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt: The Theban Case Study'', Taylor & Francis, 2017,

Tomb

The tomb is fully decorated and includes biographical texts, including on the pylons. On the pylons and in the sunken court Mutirdis is shown almost life-size. At the western side of the burial chamber, the decorated ceiling features the painting of

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from the

Book of Nut The ''Book of Nut'' (original title: ''The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars'') is a collection of Ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptian astronomical texts focusing on mythological subjects, cycles of the stars of the decans, and the movements o ...

. The head of Nut is located at the entrance of the tomb from the west. Due to the collapse of the ceiling, the Nut painting is heavily damaged. The eastern part of the ceiling has the representation of the

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, which is also aligned in a westerly direction to the entrance.

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{{reflist Theban tombs Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt

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