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Archaeological site of Dra' Abu el-Naga, view to the west, Luxor West Bank, Egypt
The necropolis of Draʻ Abu el-Naga' (Arabic: دراع ابو النجا) is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, just by the entrance of the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif. The necropolis is located near the Valley of the Kings.
It was probably used as a royal Necropolis for the pharaohs of the Seventeenth Dynasty and contains the possible tomb of Amenhotep I, Tomb ANB.
It was also used as a cemetery for officials of the New Kingdom administration in Thebes.
During the Coptic eras, a monastery, Deir el-Bakhît, identified as the historical Theban Monastery of Saint, Paulos[1] was built on the hilltop above the pharaonic cemetery.[2]
Notable burials
- ANB – Possibly Amenhotep I and Ahmose-Nefertari
- TT11 – Djehuty
- TT13 – Shuroy
- TT255 – Roy
- Neferhotep, findspot of the Papyrus Boulaq 18
- Kampp 157 – Userhat dating to the 18th Dynasty containing eight mummies, 10 wooden sarcophagi and over 1000 ushabti.[3][4][5][6]
- Kampp 161
- Tomb of Ramessesnakht
References
- ^ Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture. "Deir el-Bakhît and the Theban Monastery of St. Paulos". www.oeaw.ac.at. Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- ^ "Dra' Abu el-Naga/Western Thebes". Dra' Abu el-Naga/Western Thebes: An archaeological investigation of a residence necropolis in Upper Egypt (Luxor). Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Archived from the original on 2008-01-27. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- ^ "Mummies, Thousand Statues Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Tomb". 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
- ^ Luxor Times (2017-04-18), Minister of antiquities reveal the new discovery, retrieved 2017-04-21
- ^ "Exclusive footage: Amazing new finds by an Egyptian team in Luxor". luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
- ^ Blakemore, Erin. "Mummies and More Than 1,000 Statues Found in Egyptian Tomb". Smithsonian. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
Bibliography
- Marilina Betrò, Del Vesco Paolo, Gianluca Miniaci: Seven seasons at Dra Abu El-Naga. The tomb of Huy (TT 14): preliminary results, Progetti 3, Pisa 2009
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