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TT358,TT320andKV39.TreeearlyEighteenthDynastyQueen’stombs...
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TT358,TT320ANDKV39.
THREEEARLYEIGHTEENTHDYNASTY
QUEEN’STOMBSINTHEVICINITY
OFDEIREL-BAHARI
DavidA.Aston
AustrianAcademyofSciences,Vienna
Abstract:TispaperdiscussesthesimilaritiesbetweenTT358,TT320and,initssecondstage,
KV39.Intermsofbotharchitectureandgravegoods,itissuggestedthatthesethreetombswereall
madeforearlyEighteenthDynastyqueens.TatTT358wascarvedforAhmose-Meryetamunis
certain,whilstthesuggestionthatTT320wascutforAhmose-Nofretariisdefended.Althoughit
isnotcertainforwhomKV39mayhavebeendesigned,thesuggestionthatitwasAhmose-Inhapi
seemsplausible.
Keywords:Ahmose-Meryetamun,Ahmose-Nofretari,Ahmose-Inhapi,AmenophisI
Withtherecentpublicationoftwoarticles
concernedwithqueen’stombsinthe
ValleyoftheKings(Roehrig2010;Preys
2011),anarticleonKV42(Eaton-Krauss
2012),andabookdealingwiththere-
clearanceofTT320(GraefeandBelova
2010),interestinthequeen’stombsof
theearlyEighteenthDynastyisclearly
ontherise.WiththisinmindIpresent
hereanarticleontheEighteenthDynasty
Queen’stombslocatedintheareaofDeir
el-Bahari,with,forthepurposeofthis
study,thetopographicalbordersbeingKV
41inthenorthandKV39inthesouth
[Fig.1].Atfirstglanceitisperhapsstrange
toseeTT358,TT320andKV39linked
togetherasbelongingtothreequeensofthe
earlyEighteenthDynasty,themoresothat
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inexcavationreportsofTT320,Erhart
Graefearguesthatitwasfirstcutduringthe
Twenty-firstDynasty(Graefe2004:55).
Tisisindirectcontrasttotheviewsof,
amongothers,HerbertWinlock(1931),
ElizabethTomas(1966:170-202;1979:
90),JohnRomer(1976),NicholasReeves
(2003:69),andDylanBickerstale(2010:
31),whohaveallpointedoutthatboth
thearchitectureandlocationofTT320
isremarkablysimilartoother‘bab’tombs
ascribedtothelateSeventeenthandearly
EighteenthDynastyqueens,and,aswe
shallsee,theyareremarkablysimilarin
bothplanandassociatedfinds.
Perhaps,however,itisnotsostrange
sinceallthreehave,atonepointoranother,
beendatedtothereignofAmenophisI,
