TT320

The falls thebaine TT 320 (known also under the name of DB320) is located at Deir el-Bahari, in the Nécropole thebaine, on western bank of the the Nile, vis-a-vis Louxor in Egypt.

It is the hiding place of more than fifty mummies.

Use of the tomb

The tomb was initially designed to be the last residence of the First prophet of Amon Pinedjem {{II}}, his wife Nesikhons and several other members of its family. Pinedjem dies towards -969 at the time of the decline of the kingdom. At this time, the mummies of the preceding dynasties are vulnerable to the flights and are transported in this tomb to protect the remainders from these royal characters.

List mummies found in the tomb:

Ahhotep {{Ier}}
Ahmès-Néfertary
Ahmosé-Henoutemipet
Ahmosé-Henouttaméhou
Ahmosé-Inhapi
Ahmosé-Méritamon
Ahmosé-Sipair
Ahmosé-Sitamon
Ahmosé-Sitkamosé
Amenhotep {{Ier}}
Ahmosis {{Ier}}
Bakt
Djedptahioufânkh
Douathathor-Henouttaouy
funerary Remainders of Hatchepsout
Isetemkheb {{IV}}

Maâtkaré
Masaharta
Mérymosé
Nebseni
Nesikhons
Nesitanebetashrou
Nodjmet
Ouepmosé
Oupouaout-mosé
Paheripedjet
Pédiamon
Pinedjem {{Ier}}
Pinedjem {{II}}
Spoke

Ramsès {{Ier}}
Ramsès {{II}}
Ramsès {{III}}
Ramsès {{IX}}
Seniou
Séqénenrê Taâ {{II}}
Séthi {{Ier}}
Siamon
Siese
Soutymosé
Tayuheret
Tétishéri
Thoutmôsis {{Ier}}
Thoutmôsis {{II}}
Thoutmôsis {{III}}
more eight other not identified mummies.

Discovered

The tomb was discovered by a local family, the Abd el-Rasuls , which used the mummies as stock of invaluable objects that they resold on the market of antiquities. This was the reason of an investigation of the authorities to find the source of these objects.

The tomb was inspected in the urgency (48 hours after its official discovery in 1881) by Emile Brugsch, with the order to make sure that no other antiquity is sold, then it was walled by rocks until its reopening in 1938. Since 1998 a German-Russian team directed by Erhart Graefe works there to preserve it.

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