New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, Sety I
This long and elaborately decorated tomb is appropriate for a pharaoh as important as Sety I. This is the first tomb to be completely decorated in all corridors and nearly all chambers, from the entry to the side chambers off the burial chamber. Some decorative themes appear here for the first time. There is a long and still partly unexplored corridor extending many meters into the bedrock beyond the burial chamber. The tomb was discovered in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni and news of the find generated as much excitement in Europe as the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb did a century later. Attempts to copy reliefs on the wall and the wholesale removal of reliefs to museums in Europe did serious damage to the walls, and our only record in some cases is historical paintings that were made by early visitors.
Side chamber
Imydwat, seventh and eighth hours; funerary objects; Asar (Osiris); Sety I.
Side chamber: right face of pillar 1
Asar (Osiris) between imyut-emblems.
Burial chamber lower level: rear wall
Imydwat, second hour: detail.
Burial chamber J lower level
Astronomical scenes; Imydwat, second hour; Imydwat, third hour; railing surrounding descent to chamber K in foreground.
Burial chamber J lower level: right wall (upper part)
Winged figure of Nephthys; abbreviated version of the Imydwat, and Imydwat, third hour.
Burial chamber J lower level: ceiling
Circumpolar stars, decans, and constellations of the southern sky.
Burial chamber J lower level: ceiling (rear part)
Southern stars.
Burial chamber J lower level: ceiling (front part)
Circumpolar stars.
Side chamber: rear wall
Book of the Heavenly Cow: Hathor as the Heavenly Cow.
Chamber I: front wall; Corridor G; Corridor H
Sety I with two forms of Hathor, and repairs in brick of damaged walls; stairs leading in the direction of tomb entrance.