Valley of the Kings
- KV43 tomb of Tuthmosis IV - XVIIIth
Dynasty
The
tomb KV43 was discovered 18 January 1903, by Howard Carter. The carefully cut entrance stair and first three
corridors push in a straight line to a large well with an offset chamber
cut at the base of its wall. The axis then turns 90 degrees into the
first pillared hall from which a staircase, sloping corridor and another
staircase lead to the anteroom and burial chamber. In the tomb H.Carter
was found some small objects, fragments of funerary equipment. The
mummy of Tuthmosis IV was cached within a side chamber of the
tomb KV35.
A - entrance
B - first corridor (undecorated) C, H - stairs
D - second corridor
E - well shaft (scenes of the king before various
deities, ceiling with stars) Ea - well shaft chamber
F - first pillared hall (undecorated) G - slope passage
I - antechamber (scenes of the king before various
deities, ceiling with stars, restoration text of Horemheb on southwest
wall) J - burial chamber
(undecorated) Ja - storeroom contained wheat filled jars
Jb - storeroom with a child mummy plus faience vessals and fragments of
ritual objects
Jc - storeroom contained a shabti and mummy bandages
Jd - storeroom contained mummified joints and geese K - sarcophagus