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- Wall 13, carrying funerary goods
- Wall 14, Offering scene
- Wall 15, Senneferi before Anubis
- Wall 16, libation and offering scenes, procession of offering bearers
- Wall 17, Osiris hymn?
- Pillar A East, receiving New Year's offerings
- Pillar A North, offering list
- Pillar A West, text
- Pillar A South, text
- Pillar B East, text
- Pillar B North, text
- Pillar B West, text
- Pillar B South, text
- North abacus, cobra
- South abacus, cobra
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South abacus
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I use the term abacus to describe the areas at the tops of pillars which separate them from the ceiling. In TT99 there is one which runs West-East across the top of each pillar. As the central area of the ceiling has a profile like the hieroglyph for a shrine The above photo shows the left part of the abacus; clicking on it will reveal a larger image of the rather damaged head of the cobra at the east end of the southern abacus. The winged cobra can be seen to be holding a sun disc; under the very dirty area was probably a cartouche as on the other side, confirmed by the hieroglyphs to the left reading 'perfect god'. These only are used to refer to the king. |
, both abaci are deeper at the East than at the West end. Rather than leave them blank, the designer/decorator of the tomb filled each with a large snake, before each of which was a cartouche of Thutmose III.© Nigel Strudwick 1997-2013