Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-160
Keyword(s):  
Theban Necropolis

Theban Graffito no. 1572 Rediscovered and Some New Texts from the “Valley of the Quarries”

2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirosław Barwik
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Theban Necropolis

SummaryFour hitherto unpublished graffiti from the “Vallée des Carrières”, on the northern borders of the Theban necropolis, are presented in the paper. Two of them are explicitly dated to year 16 (of Smendes or Paynudjem I?), and were written by the well-known scribe of the necropolis Ankhefenamun, son of Buteh­amun. There are good reasons to suppose that the other texts belong approximately to the same period, when extensive activity of the necropolis staff can be noted in the available sources. Some of the names provided by the present graffiti are known also from other sources dating to the very beginning of the XXI

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