KV47
Sign in to saveTomb KV47, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It was discovered on December 18, 1905 by Edward R. Ayrton, excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis; Siptah's mummy had been found earlier, cached in KV35. It was the last of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasty kings tombs to be uncovered in the Valley. Ayrton stopped his excavation in 1907 due to safety fears, and Harry Burton returned in 1912 to dig further. The cutting of a side passage was halted after the workmen cut into Side Chamber Ja of the tomb of Tia'a (KV3
Key facts
- Egyptian tomb.name
- KV47
- Egyptian tomb.owner
- Siptah
- Egyptian tomb.image
- Siptah’s sarcophagus in Tomb KV47.jpg
- Egyptian tomb.caption
- The sarcophagus of Siptah in the burial chamber
- Egyptian tomb.location
- East Valley of the Kings
- Egyptian tomb.date
- 18 December 1905
- Egyptian tomb.excavated
- Edward R. Ayrton (1905–1907)Harry Burton (1912–1913)Howard Carter (1922)MISR Project: Mission Siptah-Ramses X (1999–present)
- Egyptian tomb.decoration
- Litany of Re; Amduat; Book of the Dead; Maat
- Egyptian tomb.layout
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- Area
- 501.42
- Image
- Wall paintings in Siptah's tomb, Valley of Kings.jpg
- Length
- 124.93
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- KV47
- time of discovery or invention
- 1905-00-00
- described at URL
- thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV47_1.pdf
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- Location, discovery, and layout
- Excavation and contents
- Recent investigation
- Decoration
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- Image gallery
- References
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Tomb KV47, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It was discovered on December 18, 1905 by Edward R. Ayrton, excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis; Siptah's mummy had been found earlier, cached in KV35. It was the last of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasty kings tombs to be uncovered in the Valley. Ayrton stopped his excavation in 1907 due to safety fears, and Harry Burton returned in 1912 to dig further. The cutting of a side passage was halted after the workmen cut into Side Chamber Ja of the tomb of Tia'a (KV32). The tomb was unfinished at the time of its use.
==Location, discovery, and layout== thumb|The finished section of Siptah's long 400 feet tomb passageway thumb|upright|Plan of the tomb, from Burton's excavations KV47 is located in a bay at the southern end of the Valley of the Kings, close to the contemporary tombs of Seti II (KV15), Bay (KV13), and Twosret (KV14). Unlike these tombs, which are cut into the cliff face, this tomb was cut into a tongue of rock running north to south that separates the bay from the main valley.
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