The Mystery of the Neferrenpet Priest's Tomb
The Mystery of the Neferrenpet Priest's Tomb
On the west bank of Luxor ancient Thebes the deep rectangular tomb wall of his tomb TT 178 is located in the area of Koca a small hill. During the New Kingdom, Egyptians often placed funerary texts from the "Book of the Dead" in tombs dating back to the 22nd Dynasty emphasizing its miraculous content. These texts were intended to protect the deceased and grant eternal life inscribed on papyrus carved into tomb walls and adorned with statues. The Book of the Dead by the sculptor Neferenpet dates back to 1250 BC. The priest Ankhefensekhmet a high-ranking Memphis priest depicts ancient Egyptian bas-reliefs sometimes called tablets from the late 22nd Dynasty.
Several of Ankhefensekhmet's ancestors held the title of chief craftsman commonly known as the High Priest of Ptah. Neferenpet's tomb located in El Koca consists of four tombs located close together with a common entrance courtyard. The hieroglyphics dating back to the 8th century BC are ancient stone inscriptions of the Ankhefensekhmet genealogy reflecting the continuity of the ancestral line and also identifying the pharaohs or kings who ruled during that time. They also incorporate elements of the ideology of the Ankhefensekhmet priests.
Pictures on the wall Tomb of Neferrenpet - TT178
Thebes TT43 located at Sheikh Abdul Qurna is part of the Thebes Necropolis on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor. It is the burial site of Neferonpet. In Thebes TT43 hieratic images in the Ankhefensekhmet priests' tomb which correspond to those in the Nebamun tomb were decorated during the transitional period between Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III. The hieratic images linked to feast scenes are composed of two sections including one that serves as filler for missing text. A hieratic caption for a portion of the feast prayer is located on the far left wall.
The Tomb of Neferrenpet at the Necropolis of El-Khokha in Luxor, Egypt
The walls in this tomb consist of two sections one depicting a male attendant and the other depicting a female attendant in front of a seated couple presumably Neferenpet and his wife or mother. Faint inscriptions adorn the walls above the heads of the seated male attendants at a banquet. When researchers and archaeologists use ultraviolet UV light to examine the hierarchy of inscriptions they appear to correspond to the names of the seated male attendants.
Thebes Mausoleum TT43 is located in Sheikh Abdul Qurna.
/ Valley of the Nobles / Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
The first man is known as the Clerk Sennu followed by Siemun Ah-Kepúr-Neheh and Vennecu. No other inscriptions appear on the walls. During the 1905 excavation of TT 43 Robert Mond discovered a limestone obelisk in a 12.7-meter 42 ft shaft in the forecourt. The obelisk is inscribed for Siemun the keeper of the treasury of the perfect gods not just the title held by Neferenpet the owner of TT 43.
