TAA i.3.31.5

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          Commencing from the beginning of the Empire 

these rock-cut hypogea show stages of evolution, 

they gradually expand in importance, reaching their 

climax at the time of Thothmes IV, from which reign 

onwards, though we find certain additions, these 

additions disappear, and the tomb-plan in many ways 

gradually falls into decadence. It is only in the 

case of the tombs of the kings involved in the "Aten" 

heresy, that the orthodox pattern of the New Empire 

has not been adhered to. Hence, it is no surprise 

to find Tutankhamen's tomb unorthodox in type, though 

he reverted to the older religion – the worship of 

Amen. Contrary to Tutankhamen <and king Ay>, Horemheb, who sup-

planted King Ay and founded the Nineteenth Dynasty, 

in making his tomb in the Valley, reintroduced the 

orthodox plan in all its component parts. And in 

Horemheb's tomb one directly sees the transition from 

the Eighteenth Dynasty bent tomb to the straightened 

tomb form of his dynasty and of those which followed.

          With regard to the names of those component parts, 

although of a decadent period, we gain not a little 

knowledge from the Turin Papyrus <(1)> – a project for the 

tomb of Rmesses^sic IV, naming some of its divisions. There/<In that document>
the fourth of the axial passages is called [ 𓂀] "The 

Passage of the God" which, as Gardiner rightly says, 

can be appropriately translated "Corridor" or "Passage." 

The/<A> room named [ 𓂀] "The Hall of 

Waiting," appears to be the antechamber preceding the 

sarcophagus chamber and, strictly speaking, <it should> precede the 

pillared portion of the earlier form of that chamber – 

compare the Cairo ostracon, <(2)> a plan for the tomb of 

Ramesses IX.

<(1) Carter & Gardiner, The Tomb of Ramesses IV and the Turin Plan of a Royal Tomb, J.E.A., IV, p.130 ff.>

<(2) Daressy, Ostraca, pl.XXXII, No. 25184, Cat. Gen. Cairo Museum.>