Panehsy and his wife, as well as one of his brothers, were chanters. He was part of the cult of Amenhotep I and Ahmose-Nefertari in the time of Ramesses II. His tomb has a number of unusual scenes, but these were badly damaged by looters in the 1960s and 1970s, judging by before-and-after photographs. There will be a formal report on Jane Akshar's blog in a day or two, so I won't linger here.
The history of the exploration of this tomb is more interesting to me. In Porter and Moss (1927) A Topographic Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, Volume I, The Theban Necropolis, only the first, wide, chamber is mentioned, and the tomb plan shows a blocked doorway at the centre-back. Baud et Drioton (1932) Le Tombeau de Panehsy, is a mainly-text volume with a few line-drawings but no plan. It also deals only with the first room:
"La première chambre, seule, est encore accessible, un blocage de pierres empêchant de pénétrer dans la seconde; peut-être celle-ci était-elle toute petite, peut-ètre même (bien qu'ïl y ait l'amorce d'un plafond au-dessus du blocage) n'était-ce qu'une simple niche à peine enfoncée dans le rocher, Ce qui tendrait à le faire croire, c'est que les thèmes des funérailles, réservés d'habitude à la paroi I (dans la deuxième chambre), sont distribués (lans la première sur les parois B, C et D." | "The first room, alone, is still accessible, a stone blockage preventing us from entering the second, perhaps it was very small, perhaps (although there is the beginning of a ceiling above the blockage) just a simple niche driven into the rock, which would tend to believe, is that the themes of the funeral, usually reserved to the wall I (in the second room), are distributed in the first on the walls B, C and D. " |
Suzanne is now systematically clearing and conserving this passage, which is largely blocked with debris. She completed the first 7 metres of the 1 metre wide passage last year: about 1/10 of the length. Finds included fragments of pottery, cartonage, body-parts of up to 20 different people, etc., dating up to about 1500 years after the original construction and decoration of the tomb.
There not being any pictures from the lecture, I've added a few more of small birds in the gardens of Luxor.