Dra' Abu el-Naga, Egypt. Investigations into the Formation and Development of an Upper Egyptian Residential Necropolis. The Work of the Years 2020 and 2022 Band

Abstract

The works of the seasons 2020 and 2022 focused on two sites in area H: a group of 18th Dynasty tombs directly north-east of the mudbrick pyramid of King Intef Nubkheperra, and on the large forecourt of Theban Tomb (TT) no. 232, dating to the early 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550 BCE). The large saff-tomb TT 232 of the Theban High Priest Min-Month is situated a few meters west of the royal pyramid, and both monuments were landmarks formative of the local funerary and ritual landscape. They served as important reference points, providing the social, spatial/architectural, and ritual-religious setting for the construction of further tombs. Among these are K13.6 of the wab-priest Amunpanefer, sunk into the courtyard of TT 232, and K10.5 of Neferamun, priest of »Month in Thebes«, situated north-east of Nubkheperra’s pyramid. Both tombs are revealing examples of the influence of local factors within the site’s development as well as its interaction with the temple of Karnak, the domain of Amun-Ra, on the east bank of the Nile.