REPORT ON WORK
DONE IN THE GEBEL ESH-SHEIKH
ABD-EL-KURNEH AT THEBES
JANUARY TO MARCH 1903
BY
M. RORERT MOND
M.A.F.K.S. Ed. F.C.S.F.G.S. ETC. ETC.
On the invitation of Mr Percy E. Newberry, and with his kind assistance in the direction of the work and the copying of the inscriptions, I began excavations on the 10"' January igo3, in his concession of the Gebel eshSheikh Abd-el-Kurneh at Thèbes.
§ I. — THE TOMB OF KEN-AMEN.
I commenced by clearing the tomb and courtyard of Ken-Amen (1), Mr Howard Carter, Chief Inspector of the Antiquities of Upper Egypt, having kindly shown me the site and examined with me the most suitable place for the deposit of the débris that we had to remove. Tins work was practically completed by the middle of February, and, during the course of it, several
o The tombs of ^ | """ l4 KenAmen has been briefly described by Champollion (Notices descriptives, 8 quai. L.) and some of its painted scènes hâve been published byRoseUini (M. C, CXXI) and Lepsius (D., III, 63,a). Hay also copied some of its scènes (Brit. Mus. Add. Mss. 29823 f.f. 6/1-71; 29844 and 216). A statuette of Ken-Amen vas found in the temple of Mut at Karnak and has been
Annales, igo4.
published by Newberry (BENSON and GODRLAY, The Temple of Mut, p. 32632 8). A very fine shawabli figure in blue glass bearing Ken-Amen's name is in the Gairo Muséum and probabiy came from his tomb at Thèbes. He is described on
thèse monuments as L_~\ *" I ^^•^■ï' *~-*l """"^and >^.| ^^ , and served under Amenhotep II.