Egypt
KV-63 Update
See the above post for the full story. The season is expected to resume in 2010.
- Kv63 Update
KV63 Dig Diary (Otto Schaden) Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's blog and her reader Len Solt for pointing to the above update dating to November 4th 2010 on the KV63 website. Details of some of the research results from last season are discussed and some...
- Kv63 Dig Diary Updated
KV63 2010 After four weeks, we do have some encouraging progress to report. Our SCA conservators (Ahmed Baghdady, Mohammed Mahmoud and Zaref Basili) have recently reattached Coffin B’s facemask to the lid. The unattached mask had been strange to behold,...
- Kv-63 Update
KV-63 17 March 2009 Sorry for the delay, for I had intended to have this update out much earlier. My lecture on March 14th at the Mummification Museum went well as I managed to present sixty-eight images in 45 minutes! As mentioned in my 7 February update...
- Quest For The Mummy Of Hatshepsut
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htmThanks very much to Jen Mason for the following artilce. On Zahi Hawass's own website, Hawass argues in favour of a mummy located in the Cairo Museum being that of Hatshepsut....
- Kv63 Update
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htmThe KV63 website has been updated with some more news: "Coffin G (the Youth Coffin) was bought up successfully. The coffin appears very solid and in good condition (no termite damage). The coffin does possess a very...
Egypt
KV-63 Season Summary
KV-63 Update
There's a good summary of this year's KV-63 season, which ended on 24th March 2009. The main points are that the dating of the tomb still seems to fit with the reign of Amenophis III, no indication of a burial has ever been found, the widely publicized embalming bed has been widely publicized and has gone to the Mummification Museum in Luxor where it is now on displa,y and that some very interesting text has been found on one of the coffins:
As mentioned in the last update, Coffin A’s fragments proved to be quite interesting. Though very fragmentary and fragile because of termite damage, some key texts could be recovered from under the resin coating….the title “Royal Nurse” ( mn’t nsw ) and the name ‘Iny’. The longest translatable connected text was on the top cross band, left side: ‘Revered, (may) I see Re in the sky and drink water from the pool [ … ].’ Conspicuous by its absence, the deceased is never identified as ‘Osiris’ and the usual deities are not cited. The one example (quoted above) where we have the usual “revered” there is no qualification such as ‘revered by Anubis’ etc. This lack of the traditional deities strongly suggests that this coffin was probably fashioned during the reign of Akhenaton when many of the traditional deities were abandoned.
The rather high station held by the Royal Nurse Iny is reflected by some of the details of the coffin’s decoration. Some signs are inlaid, but most of the inlays are now gone. Some glass is used on the face mask and some border columns (a few still in situ ) have thin (1 mm) blue glass rod inlays. Finally, some surviving gold leaf further attests to the once opulent condition of this coffin.
See the above post for the full story. The season is expected to resume in 2010.
- Kv63 Update
KV63 Dig Diary (Otto Schaden) Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's blog and her reader Len Solt for pointing to the above update dating to November 4th 2010 on the KV63 website. Details of some of the research results from last season are discussed and some...
- Kv63 Dig Diary Updated
KV63 2010 After four weeks, we do have some encouraging progress to report. Our SCA conservators (Ahmed Baghdady, Mohammed Mahmoud and Zaref Basili) have recently reattached Coffin B’s facemask to the lid. The unattached mask had been strange to behold,...
- Kv-63 Update
KV-63 17 March 2009 Sorry for the delay, for I had intended to have this update out much earlier. My lecture on March 14th at the Mummification Museum went well as I managed to present sixty-eight images in 45 minutes! As mentioned in my 7 February update...
- Quest For The Mummy Of Hatshepsut
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htmThanks very much to Jen Mason for the following artilce. On Zahi Hawass's own website, Hawass argues in favour of a mummy located in the Cairo Museum being that of Hatshepsut....
- Kv63 Update
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htmThe KV63 website has been updated with some more news: "Coffin G (the Youth Coffin) was bought up successfully. The coffin appears very solid and in good condition (no termite damage). The coffin does possess a very...