The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis IIIThis book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the 15th-century BC tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. A general account was published by Herbert Winlock in 1948 (The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The present volume differs substantially in the type and extent of documentation provided and in interpretation. Verification is provided of tomb provenance for a number of objects, for example, while other objects previously thought to have come from the tomb are now considered forgeries. The text explores and documents the location of the tomb in the southwest valleys at Thebes; field work conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the site in 1988; art market finds alleged to have come from the tomb; and the names of the foreign wives and the life they might have led. |
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18th dynasty Amenhotep Amenhotep III amulets ancient Area I Fig back plate BEADS Fig BIBLIOGRAPHY Winlock 1948 bottom burial chamber Cairo canopic jars Carnarvon carnelian Carter MSS CEDAE Černı Chaban cloisons CONDITION Current understanding DIMENSIONS H Dynasty edge Egyptian blue elements examples excavated exterior faience Fletcher Fund fragments funerary Gabbanat gold vessels graffiti Hatshepsut Hayes holes inscription Lansing lapis lapis lazuli Lilyquist 1995a Lortet Luxor MANUFACTURE MATERIAL Gold mn-hpr-r modern Müller and Thiem mummy Museum naming Tuthmosis Nile B2 objects ointment ornaments pendant petroglyph PIRIFORM JAR pottery Ramesses II red washed Rim Diam ring beads Rogers Fund rosettes Sadek and Shimy scarab serpentinite shape sherds silver solder SOURCE Purchase spacers Standard early provenance stone storage jar strung surface suspension ring Taweret Thebes tomb travertine tube turquoise glass Tutankhamun Tuthmosis III Valley Wady Qurud wall wire ΜΜΑ