THE TOMB OF
KING TUTANKHAMUN
(The Boy King)
THE TOMB OF
KING TUTANKHAMUN
• History:
– New Kingdom Pharaoh
– 18th Dynasty
– Became king at age 9
– Died at age 18.
– Only intact burial of an Egyptian Pharaoh
– Tomb Location: Valley of The Kings
THE TOMB OF
KING TUTANKHAMUN
• Discovery of Tomb:
– Howard Carter: British
Archaeologist
– Spent 7 years looking
for tomb in Valley.
– By trade an artist.
• Got his start working on
digs as an artist.
The Tomb Of
King Tutankhamun
• Howard Carter:
• Previous work:
– 1893: Deir el Bahari:
Temple of Hatshepsut
– 1900: Chief Inspector
of Antiquities for Egypt
– 1905: Began work for
Lord Carnarvon
– 1917-1929: Tut’s
tomb.
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King Tutankhamun
• Lord Carnarvon
– Wealthy private
collector
– Financed
archaeological digs
– Valuable collection of
Egyptian Artifacts
– He financed Carter’s
digs. Beginning in
1905.
THE TOMB OF
KING TUTANKHAMUN
• Valley of the Kings:
– Location: Upper Egypt
– Burial spot for New Kingdom Pharaohs.
– Two areas: East Valley and West Valley
– Most tombs in East Valley
– Thutmose III, one of earliest tombs in Valley.
– Tut’s tomb is adjacent to Rameses VI tomb
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
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Valley of the Kings:
Tut’s burial: KV62
Barren region
Stop tomb robbers?
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
• The Tomb:
– Small
– Probably for someone of lesser rank
– 4 rooms and a passageway
– 4 doorways
– Staircase leads to passageway
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
• The Tomb:
– The rooms:
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Antechamber
Annex
Burial Chamber
Treasury
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
Burial Chamber:
• The only part of
the tomb with wall
paintings.
• One depicts:
Opening of Mouth
Ceremony
• Senses are
restored to Tut.
• Performed by Ay,
his successor
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
Ay
Tut
Tut in burial
garments
OPENING of the MOUTH CEREMONY
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• Burial Chamber:
– Only room in the entire
structure that is
decorated.
– Back wall painting
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Pictures
Burial Chamber
THE TOMB OF
KING TUTANKHAMUN
• Burial Chamber:
– 4 gilded shrines inside one
another.
– Stone sarcophagus: inside
were 3 coffins
• Innermost coffin: solid
gold
• Inside this coffin was
Tut with golden mask.
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• Arrangement of Coffins:
– (1)First Coffin
• It is made of Cypress wood
overlaid with gold foil
– (2)Second Coffin
• This coffin of finer workmanship
than the preceding, was also made
of wood covered in gold foil
– (3)Third Coffin
• It is made of solid gold and
weights 110.4 kg.
– (4)The Mummy
• It was decorated with near 150
amulets, jewels and the superb
golden mask inlaid with wonderful
glass
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• Outer Sarcophagus
– Weight 1 ¼ tons
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• Burial Chamber:
– Third Coffin: Solid gold, weighs 243 lbs and is 74
inches in length. This coffin contained the mummy of the
young pharaoh, covered by the famous mask. It was placed
within a second coffin, made of wood covered in gold foil,
which in turn was set within the first, outermost, coffin, also
made of wood covered in gold foil.
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• Burial Chamber
– Third Coffin:
Image of sun above coffin
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• Burial Chamber:
– Burial Mask: Made of solid gold, placed
directly upon the pharaoh's mummy.
Function: protection.
• Weight: 24 lbs.
• On the forehead of the mask are a royal
uraeus and a vulture's head:
– symbols of the two deities of Lower and
Upper Egypt: Wadjet and Nekhbet.
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• Burial Chamber
– Gold/Wood Shrines
• Covered with thick gold
foil, set on a wooden
sledge
• 4 Shrines one inside
the other
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
• Antechamber:
– Contained: chariots,
food, funeral couches,
thrones, two black
guardian figures.
– This area was seen
first by Carter.
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• Antechamber
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• Antechamber
– Life sized statues: 2 stood
guard by the sealed door to
burial chamber
– made of wood, painted with
black resin and overlaid
with gold in parts.
– They depict the pharaoh
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• Antechamber
– Golden Throne:
• Scene from back of
throne
• Made of wood covered
with sheet gold, and
adorned with
semiprecious stones
and colored glass
paste.
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• Antechamber
– Rams Head
– Head of Tut:
• On wood
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• ANNEX
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• ANNEX
– Shabti Figures
• 413 shabtis was found
• In both annex and
treasury
• About 12 in. in height
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• Treasury
– Statuette of goddess
Selkis
• Made of gilded wood
• one of the four
protective deities of the
outer canopy of the
Canopic Shrine
containing the viscera
of the deceased
pharaoh
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• Treasury
– Canopic Shrine of
Tutankhamen.
• The goddess Isis
• Within this a series of
smaller shrines, of gilded
wood and calcite.
• Within the Canopic chest
itself were four gold
coffinettes, with the
viscera of the pharaoh.
Close up of canopic jar
lids
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KING TUTANKHAMUN
• The Treasury:
• Adjacent to burial
chamber.
• Needs of afterlife:
– Boats, gilded figures,
canopic chest,
protective figure of
Anubis.
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• King Tut’s unwrapped
Mummy:
– 5’ 4” tall
– Died between age 1719