. Excavations at Dra' Abu El Naga': report on the Nov-Dec 2000 and Jan-Feb 2002 seasons

Report on the excavations in the 19th Dynasty tomb of Saroy and Amenhotep-Huy (TT 233) and that of Amenemope (TT 148), both located at Dra Abu'l Naga, Thebes-West. The chapel of TT 233 contained scenes of the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, while the burial apartments yielded a large fragmentary sandstone anthropoid sarcophagus inscribed for Saroy, as well as many 21st Dynasty shabtis for a priest named Amun-kha. The wall dividing the courtyard into two is not original to the tomb. Fragments of a stelaphorous statue found there reveal that the stela was inscribed with a Morning Hymn reconstructed here. It is further pointed out that the tomb bearing Kampp (no. 183 in AEB 1996.0659) is an integral part of tomb TT 233, and thus needs no discrete number. - The excavation of the Late Period shaft in the courtyard of TT 148 of Amenemope was completed. It turned out to give access to an otherwise unknown early 18th Dynasty tomb chapel complex of the saf-tomb type. (OEB)