The cult chapel of a post amarnian tomb: tt49

LOVECKY, GABRIELA ALEJANDRA; NEIRA CORDERO, ELISA SOLEDAD; IAMARINO, MARIA LAURA; OJEDA, VALERIA CRISTINA

Praga

Congreso; Current Research in Egiptology 2018; 2018

Charles University

The Argentine Mission in Luxor is carrying out the survey, documentation and digital drawing of epigraphy of the Theban tomb of Neferhotep, who was Great of Amun under the Ay?s reigning.The works in progress at the monument are focused on the four pillars present in the cult chapel of TT49, and these is improved on the base of new photographic documentation and some previous publication of the tomb.The aim of this paper is to present the main results achieved in the documentation. Moreover, it is considered the study of inscriptions and iconography preserved on faces of the pillars, their arrangement and location, orientation and relationship between them, and with the walls paintings of the chapel as a whole, with the purpose of rebuilding the funerary ritual of Neferhotep. Considering that he was a contemporary of Akhenaton and TT49 was decorated immediately after Amarna Period, information preserved inside the tomb is of the greatest significance.