Nefersekheru held the titles 'Scribe of the Divine Offerings of all
the Gods' and 'Officer in the Treasury of the Southern City' during
the Ramesside Period. His tomb is in el-Khokha, on the hill which
divides Deir el-Bahri from Sheikh 'Abd el-Qurna, and it was built on
to the eastern end of the Dynasty XVIII tomb of Djutmose (TT295).
The tomb opens off a courtyard and consists of a long hall with
well-preserved colourful paintings. In the entrance passage
Nefersekheru is shown in relief with one of his wives, in an attitude
of worship with texts from the Hymn to Amun-Re-Horakhty and Hymn to
Osiris. To the left of the entrance, on the eastern wall, are scenes
from the 'Book of Gates' in which he appears with his wife Nefertari
before the Guardians of the Gates, in offering scenes and a judgement
scene where his heart is weighed against a feather before Osiris, Isis
and Nephthys. In the register below there is a lovely picture of
Nefersekheru and his wife drinking from a pool in a garden and another
of him playing the game of Senet, which had a religious significance.
At the end of the eastern wall the deceased offers to the cult images
of Amenhotep I and Ahmose-Nefertari who are seated in a kiosk.
The wall at the southern end of the tomb is actually a doorway which
is now blocked off, but on the lintel above was a double-scene of the
deceased and his wife adoring Osiris and the Western Goddess and
Anubis and Isis.
The western wall on the left-hand side of the entrance shows funerary
offering scenes, one with a priest and a harpist censing offerings. In
the centre of the eastern wall are three well-preserved life-sized
statues. Osiris is portrayed in the centre with a statue of the
deceased on either side. On the right of the statue niche, scenes of
Nut as a personified djed-pillar which is adored by baboons and
various deities. Nefersekheru had two other wives who were depicted in
these scenes - Ma'atmut stands with her husband before Osiris, Isis
and Nephthys and in the bottom register Sekhemwy, is with Nefersekheru
in a Tree-Goddess scene.
In another statue-niche on the northern wall there are seated statues
of the deceased with two women, possibly two of his wives. The
wall-paintings of Nefersekheru's tomb are behind glass panels.
The low modern entrance to the tomb of Djutmose opens in the western
wall of the hall. |
