Interesting lecture on KV55 Nov 29th.

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Message from my friend, Egyptologist Huub Pratt.....anyone is welcome!!

On Friday November 29 2019 I will give a free lecture on the roof terrace of the Nile Valley Hotel in Luxor-Bayrat. The lecture bears the title The Semenkhkara Enigma. I start my presentation at 2 p.m. and it ends is around 3.30 p.m.

For whom tomb KV55, which had already been violated in ancient times, was originally intended, remains a big question. The confusion about this relatively small tomb in the Valley of the Kings actually started immediately after Theodore Davis discovered it in 1907. A gilded wooden panel of a shrine shows Akhenaten together with his mother Tiye. The cartouches of Akhenaten, however, were erased. The shrine must have been used earlier for the burial of Tiye in the royal tomb in Tell el-Amarna. In the burial chamber of KV55, Davis also found a wooden mummy coffin inlaid with semi-precious stones. This chest was previously used for a woman, but later adapted for a king. Here too, the cartouches had been erased and the lower part of the golden mask had been removed by force. A heavily battered mummy of a man lay on the floor next to the coffin. In the burial chamber, Davis also found four so-called magic bricks on which the name of Akhenaten is written. The four canopic jars that Davis found were originally intended for Kiya, the concubine of Akhenaten. The inscriptions on these alabaster jars are almost completely erased. Adjustments to the four lids of the jars indicate that a royal uraeus has been added to the human heads. No object from KV55 refers to a king named Semenkhkara. Neither has any object emerged from that tomb displaying the name of his Great Royal Wife Meritaton. Yet many researchers assume that KV55 was intended for Pharaoh Semenkhkara. — feeling motivated at Nile Valley hotel & Restaurant.