PREFACE

Summary

This volume deals with the two small store chambers of the tomb : the one adjoining the Burial Chamber, the other adjoining the Antechamber. They were originally called the Store Chamber and Annexe, but I have re-named them the Innermost Treasury and Store-room. As a matter of fact the ancient Egyptians called these small chambers “Treasuries,” and they were known as the “Right“ or “Left-hand Treasury,” or “Treasury of the Innermost,” in accordance with their situation and purpose. As the room called the “Treasury of the Innermost “seems to have been the storehouse for the Canopic equipment and other chattels, I have named the corresponding room in this tomb the Innermost Treasury.

If one compares the plan of this tomb with a normal Eighteenth Dynasty royal hypogeum, that of Thothmes iv being perhaps the best example, one immediately sees that this tomb is a modification of the Sepulchral Hall and “Well” (i.e. the sunken space at the end of the hall for the sarcophagus) without any of the corridors and chambers that should lead to it. Thus, the room called the Antechamber here is a modified form of the Sepulchral Hall, the Burial Chamber the “Well,” and the Innermost Treasury and Annexe are but two of the four storehouses or treasuries that belong to the normal Sepulchral Hall and “Well” for the sarcophagus.