KV7

KV7

EgyptianRoyalTombDetail
Name = KV7
Location = East Valley of the Kings
Date = Open in antiquity
Owner = Ramesses II
Excavated = Henry Salt Carl Lepsius Christian Leblanc (1991)
Prev=KV6
Next=KV8
Decoration=Book of Gates Amduat Litany of Ra Book of the Dead Opening of the Mouth [cite web | url=http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerard_Flament/ramstomb.htm | title = The Tomb of Ramesses II and Remains of His Funerary Treasure | author = Christian Leblanc | accessdate = 2006-12-04]

Tomb KV7 in the Valley of the Kings was the final resting place of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great") of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It is located in the main valley, opposite the tomb of his sons, KV5, and near to the tomb of his son and successor, Merenptah, KV8. The tomb's location has meant that it has been very badly damaged in the flash floods that periodically sweep through the valley.

Decoration and layout

KV7 follows the bent-axis plan of tombs of the earlier Eighteenth Dynasty. The burial chamber has a sunken central area and a vaulted ceiling. Much of the decoration has been damaged beyond repair – its section of the Valley is particularly susceptible to flash floods – but it would have been decorated with the standard "Book of Gates", "Amduat" and "Litany of Ra."

The mummy was relocated to the mummy cache in DB320, and the tomb was reused in the Third Intermediate and Roman periods for burials and by early tourists.

References

*Reeves, N., and R. H. Wilkinson. The Complete Valley of the Kings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.
*Siliotti, A. Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples. Cairo: A.A. Gaddis, 1996.
*Leblanc, Christian. "The Tomb of Ramesses II and Remains of his Funerary Treasure." "Egyptian Archaeology" 10 (1997): 11-13.

External links

* [http://www.kv5.com/sites/browse_tomb_821.html Theban Mapping Project: KV7] - Includes description, images, and plans of the tomb.


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