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This is the plan of Shuroy's tomb and shows you where the pictures were taken from. |
TT. 13 - Shuroy was Head of brazier-bearers of Amun at Karnak Temple and he lived during the Ramesside era in the late 19th or 20th Dynasty, the exact date is unknown, but it still means that his tomb is over 3000 years old. |
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As you enter the tomb of Shuroy he is pictured, head shaved, on the right hand side of the entrance looking out.
Behind Shuroy stands his wife shown wearing her best wig complete with the typical unguent cone - this is a cone of fat which is scented and would gradually melt into the wig emitting its fragrance. |
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Just beyond the picture of Shuroy you enter the first chamber and this picture shows the right hand wall, ceiling and beyond the second chamber to the niche at the back of the tomb. The wall is fragmented but the ceiling remains virtually intact which can be seen clearly in the next photograph. |
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Through the door way above and just to the left of the niche on the back wall is Hathor, in the form of a cow, appearing from the Theban Hills. |
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This picture shows the left hand wall of the first chamber and like the earlier picture of the right hand wall it also shows the ceiling and beyond the second chamber to the niche in the back wall of the tomb.
On the very left of the picture you can just see the unfinished section of the tomb which is shown in the next picture. |
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The rock in this section of the Theban hills is unsuitable for bas relief so the walls were smoothed with mud plaster with a top coat of gypsum.
This shows very clearly how the design was marked on the walls in red (natural iron oxide) ready for the artists to come along with their colours but for some unknown reason this tomb was never finished. Possibly a lack of money or perhaps lack of time as a tomb had to be completed within 70 days. |
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Detail from the left hand wall of the first chamber which shows the colours of the tomb and the attention to detail but also the unfortunate damage that has occurred. |
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This section of the wall in the second chamber we believe shows part of the funeral procession of Shuroy. |
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This tomb, being higher in the hill, is hewn out of harder fragmented rock and therefore the walls needed to be prepared with a reasonably thick layer of mud plaster. In this close up of some very small figures you can clearly see the chopped straw that was used to bind the mud plaster on top of which a very thin layer of gypsum was applied. This had to be sized before painting to stop the colours from bleeding. |
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