tomb
The shape of the tomb as well as its location remain unknown. Dorothy Downes made a huge effort collecting all objects that were assigned to the tomb,[1] but in her publication she illustrated and commented only some of them. Based on the cowroid with the prenomen of Hatshepsut she dated the tomb to the times of the queen.[2]
The equipment found in the tomb was not rich, it consisted of 18 forms of pottery vessels, small group of beads and shells, 18 scarabs and cowroids, one golden ring, one copper fish hook and, probably, copper knife blade.[3]
L. Op de Beeck tried to prove that the assignation of tombs to the early 18th dynasty period was unjustified.[4] However, in the case of the tomb 355, the pottery forms quoted by him as the ones which survived to the early 18th dynasty[5] are present in the tomb together with two scarabs of types attested in the 12th-13th and in the early 18th dynasty. Two cowroids of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III are the latest objects in this context.
The tomb is not marked on the map published by D. Downes.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ 288: The Excavations at Esna 1905-1906 - - 1974 - Downes, Dorothy.
- ^ 288: The Excavations at Esna 1905-1906 - - 1974 - Downes, Dorothy.
- ^ 288: The Excavations at Esna 1905-1906 - - 1974 - Downes, Dorothy.
- ^ 302: Shedding New Light on Old Excavations: Esna - - 2006 - Op de Beeck, Lies.
- ^ 302: Shedding New Light on Old Excavations: Esna - - 2006 - Op de Beeck, Lies.
- ^ 288: The Excavations at Esna 1905-1906 - - 1974 - Downes, Dorothy.