Theban Tomb TT2 is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian official Khabekhnet and his family in Deir el-Medina, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. The two adjoining tomb-chapels were intended for Khabekhnet and his brother Khonsu; Khonsu was ultimately buried nearby in their parents funerary complex, TT1, possibly due to unstable rock in the tomb below his chapel. Only the southern chapel was decorated, and only the subterranean rooms of the northern chapel, TT2B, were decorated. The chapel's relief decoration is shared equally between Khabekhnet
Theban Tomb TT2 is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian official Khabekhnet and his family in Deir el-Medina, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. The two adjoining tomb-chapels were intended for Khabekhnet and his brother Khonsu; Khonsu was ultimately buried nearby in their parents funerary complex, TT1, possibly due to unstable rock in the tomb below his chapel. Only the southern chapel was decorated, and only the subterranean rooms of the northern chapel, TT2B, were decorated. The chapel's relief decoration is shared equally between Khabekhnet and Khonsu but the completed burial chamber of TT2B mentions only Khabekhnet. Fragments of burial equipment indicate he was buried there along with his wife, Sahte; the robbed tomb was reused in antiquity and later became a hermitage in the Christian era.
TT2 was excavated in the early 1900s, and in 1917 the TT2B burial chamber was discovered in excavations led by Jacques Lecomte-Dunouy for the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale; the complex was further excavated in the 1920s. From the 2010s, a team led by Anne-Claire Salmas from the University of Oxford and Alexandra Winkels from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts have studied and conserved the complex.
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