Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists Abstracts of Papers

XICE – Abstract of Papers
In the year 2000 it was offered to the Institute of Studies of Ancient Egypt by the
authority of the SCAE in the West Bank de Luxor, to make works of excavation,
cleaning and rating of the hypogeum of Sen-en-Mut, Butler of Amón and the Head of
works of queen Hatshepsut, catalogued at the moment like TT 353 and located in the
area of Deir the Bahari. Presented the corresponding project to the competent
authorities of the SCAE, the Spanish archaeological mission of the Institute of Studies
of Ancient Egypt began to develop its works from year 2003, to carry out the
execution of a project of rating, excavation, cleaning and protection of the mentioned
monument. The mentioned project whose execution is contemplated in two phases is
financed by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. Concluded the first stage of the project,
consisting on the development of the mentioned performances of rating, excavation,
cleaning and protection of the hypogeum, and the consequent integrated study of texts
of its camera `A´ with other archaeological data, which has been carried out during
the campaigns of years 2003-2006, now is the moment to offer the preliminary
conclusions of our works. The hypogeum of Sen-en-Mut in Deir the Bahari (TT 353),
was discovered by Herbert Winlock in February of 1927. In 1991, the monument and
its documentation, until then unpublished, was the object for the publication by the
Professor Peter Dorman, on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.
In the development of successive campaigns of work from year 2003 to year 2007,
that has implied the execution of different phases from works that suppose, among
other tasks, the photographic reliefment of the monument, the execution of the new
planimetry and topographic cash settlement of it, as well as the study and verification
of their relation with other monuments of the area of Deir the Bahari, specially the
temples of queen Hatshespsut and the one of Neb-Hepet-Ra Montu-Hotep, a series of
data that credit to the direct relation of the TT 353 has been revealed with some of
mentioned previous archaeological monuments and contemporary, existing in the
mentioned place. In special, it is to emphasize the entailment of TT 353 with the
Temple of Hat-Hor, in the south end of the enclosure of the Temple of Hatshepsut in
Deir the Bahari. By the same time, the nature of the architectonic design of TT 353
allows to propose a new reconsideration of its ritual nature, as well as trying to
explain its probable religious functionality. The existing epigraphic data inside the
hypogeum of Sen-en-Mut also guarantee a series of interpretative considerations, as
well as the exposition of a integrated vision of it, within the archaeological area in
which it was excavated. The conclusions that are tried to expose would help to put in
value the set of the sacret area of Deir the Bahari, confirming their nature of location
specially conceived within the real funeral cults, specially, during the reign of
Hatshepsut.
Re-excavating KV 57 (Horemheb) in the Valley of the Kings
Geoffrey T. Martin
The tomb was discovered in 1908 by THEODORE M. DAVIS and was cleared under the
supervision of Edward Ayrton, the results being published in The Tombs of Harmhabi
and Touatânkhamanou (1912). This volume is clearly partial. There is, for instance,
no mention of pottery, and many objects are not fully published or illustrated. Some
problems were unsolved until recently, including the status of the Wall Shaft inside
the tomb: there was no certainty that Davis had cleared it completely. In the large
undecorated chamber behind the sarcophagus hall a huge mound of debris awaited
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