The entrance to the tomb gives access to three corridors decorated
with the usual scenes now seen in royal tombs and the sun disc
containing scarab and ram-headed god flanked by Isis and Nephthys on
the outer lintel. On the left of the first corridor in painted plaster
relief, the queen is seen offering vases to Re-Horakhty, food to
Anubis and an image of Ma'at to Isis. Figures on this wall were
reworked to depict Tawosret as a king rather than a queen then later
changed to Sethnakht on a smaller scale. On the right-hand side the
queen can also be seen as a king offering Ma'at to Re-Horakhty, Hathor
and Nephthys.
The second corridor was usurped by Sethnakht, who covered the images
of Tawosret with plaster over which he painted his own names. The
walls contain texts from the 'Book of the Dead'. There is also a
depiction of Seti II on the right-hand wall.
The third corridor also has scenes from the 'Book of the Dead',
showing the underworld spirits with knives. This leads into a small
square chamber, probably a well-room without a shaft, decorated with
images of Osiris, Isis, Anubis, and Nephthys and an Iun-Mutef priest
with the Four Sons of Horus.
A staircase descends through the next room, also decorated with
Underworld guardians from the 'Book of the Dead', and leads to another
series of corridors, decorated with the 'Opening of the Mouth Ritual'.
In a side-room off the upper corridor a painting showing Anubis
tending a mummy on a couch and flanked by Isis and Nephthys is also a
spell from the 'Book of the Dead'.
Tawosret's burial chamber is a rectangular room with four small
annexes off the corners. The chamber has eight square pillars in a
gallery around a sunken sarcophagus area and the walls are brightly
painted with Underworld scenes from various texts (Book of Gates, Book
of Caverns, Book of the Earth). The pillars are decorated with
depictions of various deities and representations of funerary
furniture. Tawosret's name was usurped by Sethnakht here too. The
burial chamber has a typical Ramesside vaulted astronomical ceiling
showing the decans, northern constellations and their associated
deities. Whilst Tawosret's mummy has never been positively identified
(possibly mummy 'D' in the KV35 cache) her sarcophagus was found
elsewhere having been reused for a Ramesside prince.
The tomb was extended further into the mountain by Sethnakht and there
are two side rooms at the entrance to the next corridor which seem to
have been abandoned before completion. The lower corridors were
decorated with scenes from the Amduat and Sethnakht's burial chamber
at their end is similar to, but slightly lager than the chamber of
Tawosret. The carving was never completed here and the walls are only
painted and in a poorer condition than in the first burial chamber.
There is an astronomical ceiling similar to Tawosret's. |
