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Theban Tomb TT C3 and the statue of Amenhotep Cairo JE 99148

par Bavay, Laurent
Editeur scientifique Pitkin, Melanie
Référence The Overseer of Works in Memphis and Thebes, Studies in honour of Nigel Strudwick, Abercromby Press, Wallasey, page (207-223)
Publication Publié, 2023

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Résumé :

In 1993-94, the University of Cambridge Theban mission led by Nigel Strudwick discovered the fragments of a sandstone statue scattered in two shafts inside the tomb chapel of Senneferi TT99 in Sheikh Abdel Qurna. The inscription on the statue, now kept in the Egyptian Museum Cairo under registration nr. JE 99148, identify the seated man as the idnw n ỉmy-r sḏȝwty Amenhotep. Strudwick immediately established the link with a tomb briefly mentioned in 1886 by Swedish Egyptologist Karl Piehl, belonging to the ‘deputy overseer of seal-bearers’ Amenhotep and the lady Renena who is identified as Senneferi’s daughter. Despite this probable family connection, the reason for the statue to be found in TT 99 remained open to discussion, especially since the location of Amenhotep and Renena’s tomb, catalogued as TT C.3 in the Topographical Bibliography, had already been lost in the early XXth century. “Lost Tomb” C.3 eventually was rediscovered by the Belgian mission in the Theban necropolis in 2009, less than 50 meters south of TT99. Drawing on the architectural and archaeological informations provided by the excavation, this contribution proposes to consider the relationships between these two monuments, and offer new evidence to the discussion on the original location of Amenhotep’s statue.