TAA i.3.31.12

                                           (12)

          In the tomb was found a shawabti-figure <(1)> dedicated 

to Tutankhamen by "The Overseer of the Treasury, Maya," 

who inscribes himself as "The Servant who is beneficial

to his Lord." He also dedicated a miniature wooden 

effigy of the dead king, <in> as the divine prototype, lying 

upon a funeral bier. <(2)> Upon this little monument, found 

in the same treasury as the shawabti-figures, he mentions 

himself as one "who makes excellent things in the August 

Place" (i.e. the tomb), "who seeks out excellent things 

in the Place of Eternity" (i.e. the necropolis), and he

calls himself "Overseer of the Works in the Place of 

Eternity, <Overseer of the Works in the West,> the King's Scribe", <and> "Overseer of the Treasury." 

This I think leaves l<i>ttle doubt that he was responsible 

for designing and excavating the king's tomb.

          This selfsame official with "his assistant, the 

Steward of the Southern City (Thebes), Thutmosis," was 

commanded in the VIIIth. regnal year of His Majesty 

Horemheb to restore the burial of King Thutmosis IV, 

which had evidently suffered in the hands of the tomb-

plunderers. In the graffito <(3)> mentioning this historical 

fact, Maya bears the additional titles: "The Fanbearer 

on the Left of the King," "The Leader of the Festival 

of Amen in Karnak," and his parentage, "Son of the Doctor 

Awi, born of the lady Wrt"<,> is given.

          A statue of Maya, now in the Cairo Museum, was 

found in Karnak, <(4)> whose with the above titles he is also designated

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<(1) See Shawabti figure funerary statuettes.>
< (2) See funerary Statuette. >
< (3) Graffito written with ink on the wall of the Antechamber (X) in the Tomb of Thutmosis IV, Carter & Newberry, Tomb of Thutmosis IV, (this, Mr. Davis' Excavations), 1902, pp. XXXIII-IV, figs. 7 and 8. >
< (4) Legrain, Annales, IV, 213; Rép. Gen. Onomastique, 330-1. >