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The Tomb of Nefertari (QV66), Floor Plan

Contents

I. Return to Introduction to QV66
II. Floor Plan
III. Tomb
  A and B Entrance
  C Antechamber
  C Antechamber (Part 2)
  D Passage
  E Recess
  F Doorway to Sideroom
  G Side Room
  H Entrance to Corridor
  I Corridor (Upper)
  I Corridor (Lower)
  J Entrance to Burial Chamber
  K Burial chamber
    Pillars I-IV
  L Entrance to Side Room
  M West Side Room
  N Entrance to Side Room
  O East Side Room
  P Entrance to Small Inner Room
  Q Small Inner Room


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Names of the Rooms in Different Publications

  A: Entrance (Ramp2, 18 steps with central slipway4)
  B: Entrance to Tomb (Short Staircase2 and Outer Doorway1)
Outer Complex 2:
  C (I): Antechamber2, with rock cut bench along western and northern walls (Outer Hall (I)1, Outside Room 2, Room I3, Chamber C4)
  D: Passage (Recess D4)
  E (Ia): Recess2 (Recess (Ia)1, Recess E4)
  F: Doorway (Recess F4)
  G (II): Sideroom2 (Sideroom (II)1, Chamber G4)
  H: Entrance to Corridor2 (Doorway to the Corridor Doorway1, to Descending Corridor4)
  I: The Corridor1,2,3,4 (Funerary Path2, Descending Corridor4)
Inner Complex2:
  J: Doorway to Burial Chamber2 (Entrance/Doorway to Sarcophagus Chamber1, Door Reveal to the Sarcophagus Chamber4)
  K (III): Burial Chamber2 with Four Sqaure Pillars (Sarcophagus Room2, Sarcophagus Chamber (III)1,3, Sarcophagus Hall4, Chamber K4)
     Pillars I-IV4, Burial Depression4, Canopic Niche4
  L: Entrance to Sideroom
  M (IV): Sideroom2 (West Side Room (IV)1, Western Annex2, Sideroom IV3, Chamber M4)
  N: Entrance to Sideroom
  O (V): Sideroom2 (East Side Room (V)1, Eastern Annex2, Sideroom V3, Chamber O4)
  P: Entrance to Small Inner Room
  Q (VI): Small Inner Room2 (Inner Room (VI)1, Annex2, Sideroom VI3, Chamber Q4)


Bibliography

Note: Spatial units in the floorplan of QV 66 employ the letter designations used in John K. McDonald (Roman numerals designate the four columns of the burial chamber), House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari (Los Angeles, 1996); Publications in German use Roman numerals for the rooms, based on Ernesto Schiaparelli (1923).

Bibliography

1Gertrud Thausing and Hans Goedicke, Nofretari: Eine Dokumentation der Wandgemälde ihres Grabes. A Documentation of her Tomb and its Decoration (Graz: Akademische Druk- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1971).

2M.A. Corzo, Wall Paintings of the Tomb of Nefertari: Scientific Studies for their Conservation, First Progress Report July, 1987 (Cairo and Century City, CA: Egyptian Antiquities Organization and J. Paul Getty Trust, 1987).

3Heike C. Schmidt and Joachim Willeitner, Nefertari: Gemahlin Ramses’ II (Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Phillipp von Zabern, 1994).

4John K. McDonald, House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari, (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1996).


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Axonometric drawing of Nefertari’s tomb

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Based on Heike C. Schmidt, “Die transfiguration der Nefertari: Ein Leben im Glanz der Sonne,” in Nefertari: Gemahlin Ramses’ II, edited by Heike C. Schmidt and Joachim Willeitner (Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Phillipp von Zabern, 1994), 108, Abb. 150 a and b. Enhanced and coloured by Elisabetta Ferrero, Archivio White Star, American University in Cairo Press. (tagipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/media_item/file/447/Media.jpg), public domain.

Floor Plan from the Original Site Report, Ernesto Schiaparelli (1923)

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Ernesto Schiaparelli, “La Tomba di Nofretari Mirinmut,” Relazione sui lavori della missione archeologica italiana in Egitto, Volume 1 (Torino, G. Chiantore, 1923), 53.

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