The tomb was carved into a rock face and has, as it can be observed now, a very simple, irregular plan containing a single vaulted room with a niche. The plan has been, however, not settled yet, the small door in the east wall leads to a space filled with rubble, which has never been investigated. The shaft has not been located. The state of preservation of the tomb is very bad, many fragments have fallen away from the walls and the ceiling. The tomb was prepared for the high official of Hatshepsut, Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet. W.V. Davies suggests mainly based on the stylistic criteria, but also by the identification of the statue of Amen-hetep Hapu's great-grandfather, Djehuti-mes, that the decoration was executed much later, probably at the turn of the rule of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III and the person responsible for its execution was the great-grandnephew of Pen-Nekhbet, Amen-hetep Hapu.[1] On the other hand, it seems unlikely that after the disappearance of Hatshepsut and Neferu-Ra their names could be attested anywhere, which must be an indication for dating at least the west inner thickness of the doorway to the reign of the queen. The east inner thickness, the lower register of the west inner thickness as well as the west part of the north wall with the representation of Amen-hetep Hapu and his family could have been decorated in the second phase, since the ḥm-kȝ priest of Amenhotep II as a title of Amen-hetep Hapu appears in the course of the text of the east inner thickness giving the terminus post quem for its dating.
Footnotes
- ^ 456: A View from Elkab: The Tomb and Statues of Ahmose-Pennekhbet - - - Davies, W. Vivian.
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