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AnkhtawyPROCHAINE PARUTION : La tombe de Thoutmes, directeur des artistes dans la Place de Maât
(The Tomb of Thotmes, Director of the Artists in the Place of Maat)
AnkhtawyPROCHAINE PARUTION : La tombe de Thoutmes, directeur des artistes dans la Place de Maât(The Tomb of Thotmes, Director of the Artists in the Place of Maat)
Alain Zivie, La tombe de Thoutmes, directeur des artistes dans la Place de Maât. Caracara Edition, Toulouse. Publication scheduled for the beginning of 2011.
Thothmes, who served as an artist during the reign of Amenhotep (Amenophis) III, and at least at the beginning of that of Akhenaten, decorated at least part of his tomb himself, and these decorations are exceptional for more than one reason. This tomb and its owner thus raise crucial questions that this publication proposes to answer.
After La tombe de Maïa (The Tomb of Maïa), this work is the second title in the series entitled Les tombes du Bubasteion à Saqqara (The Tombs of the Bubasteion at Saqqara), which is dedicated to the principal tombs discovered, excavated, studied, and restored by the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion. It will constitute the complete scientific publication of tomb Bubasteion I.19 (also known as the “tomb of the artists”), discovered at Saqqara in November 1996. As in the preceding volume, the texts will be retranscribed, along with their transliteration and translation, and the representations on the walls will be described and commented on. It has been possible to understand most of this material, though some of it is scarcely visible, but a major work of cleaning and stabilizing of the decorated walls proved necessary to assure their conservation and to facilitate their “decipherment.”
This rock-cut tomb differs considerably from its neighbors. It is quite small, and its owner was not a high dignitary, nor was he a woman of royal blood like his immediate neighbor, Maïa (Bub. I.20), alias Princess Meritaten (Mayati). He was a member of the community whose work was to excavate and decorate the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, those servants in the Place of Maat who were intimately associated with the site of Deir el-Medina at Thebes. More precisely, he was an overseer of outline scribes, that is to say, a painter, and in his case, also a sculptor, in a word and to put it simply: an artist. His father and his eldest son had the same occupation Other artists attached to the Place of Maat are also present in this tomb, in particular Kenna, who might have been “co-owner” of the tomb.
Thothmes, who served as an artist during the reign of Amenhotep (Amenophis) III, and at least at the beginning of that of Akhenaten, decorated at least part of his tomb himself, and these decorations are exceptional for more than one reason. This tomb and its owner thus raise crucial questions that this publication proposes to answer.
After La tombe de Maïa (The Tomb of Maïa), this work is the second title in the series entitled Les tombes du Bubasteion à Saqqara (The Tombs of the Bubasteion at Saqqara), which is dedicated to the principal tombs discovered, excavated, studied, and restored by the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion. It will constitute the complete scientific publication of tomb Bubasteion I.19 (also known as the “tomb of the artists”), discovered at Saqqara in November 1996. As in the preceding volume, the texts will be retranscribed, along with their transliteration and translation, and the representations on the walls will be described and commented on. It has been possible to understand most of this material, though some of it is scarcely visible, but a major work of cleaning and stabilizing of the decorated walls proved necessary to assure their conservation and to facilitate their “decipherment.”
This rock-cut tomb differs considerably from its neighbors. It is quite small, and its owner was not a high dignitary, nor was he a woman of royal blood like his immediate neighbor, Maïa (Bub. I.20), alias Princess Meritaten (Mayati). He was a member of the community whose work was to excavate and decorate the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, those servants in the Place of Maat who were intimately associated with the site of Deir el-Medina at Thebes. More precisely, he was an overseer of outline scribes, that is to say, a painter, and in his case, also a sculptor, in a word and to put it simply: an artist. His father and his eldest son had the same occupation Other artists attached to the Place of Maat are also present in this tomb, in particular Kenna, who might have been “co-owner” of the tomb.
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