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- Courtyard of the Tomb of Horemheb Saqqara
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- Horemheb before a table of offerings, the Statue Room
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- Horemheb with the gold chain south wall second courtyard Tomb of Horemheb Saqqara
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- Asian captives, south wall, Tomb of Horemheb
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- Tomb of Horemheb, south wall, chariots
Editor’s Note
We are most grateful to Kate Gingell for supplying us with a short series of photographs that she took at Saqqara.
Her photos from the tomb of Horemheb are lovely. Horemheb was an important army general of the 18th Dynasty who became the last pharaoh of that dynasty, following Tutankhamen and Ay. His tomb at Saqqara (the necropolis of Memphis to the south of Cairo) was begun before his elevation to kingship. He was not buried there, however. When he became Pharaoh he abandoned the near-complete Saqqara tomb and built a new tomb, to be fit for a king, in the Valley of the Kings (KV57). The Saqqara tomb has artwork influenced by the Amarna period, some of which is clear in Kate’s photographs.
There is an excellent overview of the tomb on the Osirisnet website.
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[...] very much to Yvonne for adding to our collection of photos from the Tomb of Horemheb in Saqqara, started by Kate Gingell and continued by James Whitfield in his album, split into parts one and [...]
[...] Don’t miss Kate Gingell’s photos of the same tomb: http://www.egyptological.com/2012/01/tomb-of-horemheb-saqqara-by-kate-gingell-7177 [...]
[...] successor Ay, became king himself. Before becoming king Horemheb had started a tomb in Saqqara (see Kate Gingell’s Photo Album of the tomb), but abandoned this when he became king in favour of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Martin [...]
Thanks for the photos! I am hoping to see this place for myself in a few weeks.
Don’t forget to take some photos for us James!
Best
Andie
Horemheb, the good guy after Akhenaten! Would be interesting to compere these with his tomb in the Valley, to see if there are any changes. Excellent work
There is quite a lot of Horemheb material to come over the next few days and weeks. Porin. I’ve a video to add at News from the Valley of the Kings of a Symposium at the Met Museum. I’m also about to write up a lecture given last night by Prof Martin describing his re-excavation in the Valley of the Kings. Andie and I haven’t decided yet whether to place it in In Brief or the Magazine but probably the latter so it will be published with the next edition of Egyptological Magazine which as you know has a lot of other great material ;-)
Just lovely. Thank you very much. Really like the courtyard.
These photos are lovely! And yes, the photos do remind me a little of the tomb of Ramose [the unused one] and of the Amarna style.