Egypt
One would think that even though the kings reign was extremely short with no time to create a tomb for this king in the valley an eighteenth dynasty cutting would be converted to a tomb for him.
So perhaps we are looking for a shaft tomb with one room off the bottom, if this is so than the chamber should still be painted with scenes of Ramses in the presence of the gods. Their was of course enough time to do this while the kings mummification was occurring.
A stone sarcophagus may also have been appropriated but this seems unlikely and a wood sarcophagus seems more reasonable in the time allotted. Also with only months to create funerary cases for the king one would expect less rather than more, perhaps only 1 or 2 hastily improvised cases of wood with a thin layer of foil.
Again one would expect a mask of perhaps cartonnage or thin foil, the kings reign not long enough for him to have acquired any substantial wealth in the depressed period of the late Ramassides. Further more the kings canopic equipment would not be original to this king and have come from the royal storeroom.
Likewise funerary figures and ornaments may have been made for the prince/king in thinly gilded wood.
Still worst of all the kings burial at the beggining of the end of empire and having been buried in recent years his burial would have been fresh in the minds of those who may employ his burials dis-assembly.
Stripped of his ornaments the kings tomb may have contained only firewood in a valley without trees.
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- The Confession
...King's wife Nubkhas, his royal wife in the place of his, it being protected with blocks covered in mortar. We penetrated them all and found her resting likewise. We opened their coffins and their coverings in which they were. We found the august...
- The Great Missing
There is little doubt of three caches of kings from the end of the New Kingdom yet one cache is clearly missing and perhaps today represented only by its absence. The great cache of 1881 found a prince named Ahmosis though sadly he is not the liberator...
- The Confession
...King's wife Nubkhas, his royal wife in the place of his, it being protected with blocks covered in mortar. We penetrated them all and found her resting likewise. We opened their coffins and their coverings in which they were. We found the august...
Egypt
Meet Ramses VIII
One would think that even though the kings reign was extremely short with no time to create a tomb for this king in the valley an eighteenth dynasty cutting would be converted to a tomb for him.
So perhaps we are looking for a shaft tomb with one room off the bottom, if this is so than the chamber should still be painted with scenes of Ramses in the presence of the gods. Their was of course enough time to do this while the kings mummification was occurring.
A stone sarcophagus may also have been appropriated but this seems unlikely and a wood sarcophagus seems more reasonable in the time allotted. Also with only months to create funerary cases for the king one would expect less rather than more, perhaps only 1 or 2 hastily improvised cases of wood with a thin layer of foil.
Again one would expect a mask of perhaps cartonnage or thin foil, the kings reign not long enough for him to have acquired any substantial wealth in the depressed period of the late Ramassides. Further more the kings canopic equipment would not be original to this king and have come from the royal storeroom.
Likewise funerary figures and ornaments may have been made for the prince/king in thinly gilded wood.
Still worst of all the kings burial at the beggining of the end of empire and having been buried in recent years his burial would have been fresh in the minds of those who may employ his burials dis-assembly.
Stripped of his ornaments the kings tomb may have contained only firewood in a valley without trees.
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
- The Confession
...King's wife Nubkhas, his royal wife in the place of his, it being protected with blocks covered in mortar. We penetrated them all and found her resting likewise. We opened their coffins and their coverings in which they were. We found the august...
- The Great Missing
There is little doubt of three caches of kings from the end of the New Kingdom yet one cache is clearly missing and perhaps today represented only by its absence. The great cache of 1881 found a prince named Ahmosis though sadly he is not the liberator...
- The Confession
...King's wife Nubkhas, his royal wife in the place of his, it being protected with blocks covered in mortar. We penetrated them all and found her resting likewise. We opened their coffins and their coverings in which they were. We found the august...