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TT383

Theban tomb

Field	Value
theban	yes
name	TT383
owner	Merymose
image	SarcophagusOfTheVizierMerymose(TopDetail)-BritishMuseum-August21-08.jpg
caption	Sarcophagus of Merymose, from TT383
location	Qurnet Murai
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The Theban Tomb TT383 is located in Qurnet Murai, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. It is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian Viceroy of Kush named Merymose, who lived during the 18th Dynasty and served under Amenhotep III.

Merymose's titles included: King's son (of Kush), Overseer of the Southern Lands, Overseer of the Gold Lands of Amun, King's Scribe, Overseer of the King's Scribes, Overseer of the Treasury, and Steward of the Peasantry (?).

Tomb

Merymose was buried in TT383 in three anthropoid sarcophagi. The stone for these sarcophagi comes from either Upper Egypt or from Kush. The fragments are spread over several different locations: the British Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Vassar College.

Other finds from the tomb include a stela showing Merymose adoring Osiris and a stela showing Merymose and his scribe of documents named Huy. A stela now in the Cairo Museum (Cairo Mus. 34139) depicting Merymose before Osiris and Hathor is most likely from this tomb as well.

References

Porter, B. and Moss R.L.B., ''Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings: The Theban Necropolis'', Part One: Private Tombs. Second Edition. Griffith Institute. Oxford. 1994, pp. 75–78
"The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II)" by George A. Reisner ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 73–88.
O'Connor and Cline, ''Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign'', Univ. of Michigan Press, 2001

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