Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-g7rbq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-01T05:05:36.448Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

PREFACE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2012

Get access

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.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
, pp. ix - xiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1933

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • PREFACE
  • Howard Carter
  • Book: The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
  • Online publication: 05 April 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722363.001
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • PREFACE
  • Howard Carter
  • Book: The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
  • Online publication: 05 April 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722363.001
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • PREFACE
  • Howard Carter
  • Book: The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
  • Online publication: 05 April 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722363.001
Available formats
×