Tumba de Ramsés V y de Ramsés VI, Valle de las Reyes, Luxor, Egipto, 2022-04-03, DD 48
2022-04-03
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Ceiling of the tomb KV9 of the pharaohs Ramesses V and Ramses VI, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. The tomb was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V (who reigned between 1149–1145 BC). He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI (who reigned eight full years and two months in the mid-to-late 12th century BC), later reused the tomb as his own. The layout is typical of the 20th Dynasty – the Ramesside period. The workmen accidentally broke into KV12 (probably used for multiple burials of royal family members in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties) as they dug one of the corridors. The KV9 tomb has some of the most diverse decoration in the Valley of the Kings. In the image you can see a scene of the Book of the Day and Night, framed by the goddess Nut, the sky goodess with Nekhbet, the vulture goddess protector of Upper Egypt, on each side. The scene represents the nighttime journey of the sun into and through her body, with her giving birth to the rejuvenated sun in the morning.
