21st March 2016
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Ipi Tomb TT315 - Deir El-Bahari
Dr. Antonio Morales – Team Leader
Today I had the opportunity to visit TT315. Dr. Antonio Morales had arranged for me to visit the site with the permission of the Inspectors. It was a great opportunity for me to see the work in progress and to understand what their pans are for this site.
Ipi Tomb TT315 overlooks the Mentuhotep II complex, the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and the Asasif; it commands a spectacular and wonderful view from this end of the Necropolis.
Ipi was a Steward, Archive Scribe, Treasurer, Vizier and Governor of the Town. TT315 is an 11th Dynasty tomb of the Middle Kingdom.
The tomb area consists of a Courtyard, Tomb entrance façade of stone, Tomb corridor, Chapel and a deep slope leading to the Burial chamber with Sarcophagus. The walls of the corridor have lost there once covered stone blocking (likely taken for future house building) the stone sarcophagus is sunk into the floor of the burial chamber. It has amazing coloured interior with Hieroglyphs and Hieratic inscription. The main corridor is quite high and narrows towards the top. The burial corridor is set at an odd angle to the main corridor and the sarcophagus at an even further odd angle.
In the courtyard are tombs that apparently housed a member of Ipi’s family and another tomb belonging to a servant Meseh. In this tomb was found the named “Heqanakht Papyri” (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) apparently they were in very good condition. There is another chamber where they found funerary items, an embalming table and bandages.
Great Courtyard
Site Tent
My thanks to Dr. Antonio Morales for making my visit such an informative one.
My thanks to Dr. Antonio Morales for making my visit such an informative one.