01 Funeral (Burial) Chamber, Royal Tomb , Amarna (2)

            This had been sealed with a wall of limestone bricks which later served as a fill to fill up the well and bring out the funerary equipment for transport elsewhere. This proves that inhumations occurred in the tomb, that of Akhenaten himself, his daughter Maketaten and his mother, Tiy.
The funeral chamber is an impressive square hall with sides of about 10 mtres and a height of 3.5 metres. Is excavation included arranging for a platform on the left of about 33cm in height on which stand the remains of two square pillars. The masons had just begun to cut a passage to another room at the corner furthest from the right-hand wall to serve as another “suite” for a new burial.
The reliefs and inscriptions carved on the plastered walls of this room were almost entirely erased a short time after the death of the king. Traces of inscriptions near the ceiling, in an extremely fragile state, give the names and titles of the Aten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti. With difficulty we recognise in, the scenes which were once there, the usual ceremonies of offerings to the Aten, at which the royal family officiated, of enormous quantities of food, drink and flowers piled up on the altars of the Aten. Pieces of furniture and funerary equipment destined for the use of the deceased also appeared in these scenes. On the other hand, in conformity with the ideology of the Aten, which rejected the “ Books of the Hereafter”, the funeral chamber contains hardly any texts. Among the rare ones recognisable, we notice the great frequency of the cartouche of the queen Nefertiti, which underscores her very important liturgical role.
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Taken in: Egypt / Minya / Tall Banī ‘Umrān (show map)

Taken on: October 28, 2022

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Sets appears in: • Royal Tombs (EA26), Amarna: Egypt 2022

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