The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide to...) by Dan Richardson & Daniel Jacobs

Author:Dan Richardson & Daniel Jacobs [Richardson, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409362463
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 2013-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Khoka Tombs

5km from Gezira • £E25 from the main ticket office

Set apart from the others, the Khoka (or, as locals say, “Hookah”) tombs were built for a trio of New Kingdom officials. Neferonpet (or Kenro) was a treasury scribe; the tomb’s inner chamber depicts him assessing deliveries of gold and food, and the work of sculptors and weavers. The golden-yellow, red and blue murals, the brightly patterned ceilings and the votive statues of the deceased and his wives (badly disfigured) are also characteristic of the tomb of Nefersekheru, next door. Here, the wives enjoy greater prominence, flanking Nefersekheru pictorially (to the right as you enter) and sculpturally (in niches), and known to posterity as Maatmou, Sekhemui and Nefertari. Their mummies were buried in a shaft off the rear corridor, which leads into the adjacent tomb of Dhutmosi (now inaccessible).

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