The tomb of Samut, aka Kyky

The tomb of Samut, aka Kyky 

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The tomb of Samut, aka Kyky

This measures 2.71m in length.

This is produced as three superimposed registers, each of them being surmounted by a black band representing the hieroglyph (pet, the sky).

1) - At the extreme left, is the end of the first text, whose beginning is located on the east and south walls. It ends in front of its recipient, the goddess Mut.

2) - The goddess is seated under a richly decorated kiosk. (view gm_04) At the top of the roof is a frieze of cobra adorned with solar discs, which rests a coving, at the lower edge of which is a "traditional frieze" formed of a succession of coloured rectangles.

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From the coving hangs a red and black banner. The small structure is supported by fine wooden papyriform columns, to which red ribbons are attached, flowing outwards. The umbels of papyrus are surmounted by a representation of the goddess Hathor: a woman's head with ears of a cow, her wig is crowned by the goddess's characteristic sistrum. A floral garland is stretched between the columns.

Mut is seated on the ancient square-shaped chair with a small backrest. She wears a blue-green skin-tight dress with two shoulder straps. She has bracelets on her wrists and arms, and a broad necklace around her neck.

On top of her long black hair she wears a headdress in the form of a vulture, which is her emblem. This is surmounted by the royal Double Crown, which shows pictorially the facts which Kyky declares (and which is inscribed in front of her): Mut is Mistress of the Heavens and Queen of the Gods.

In her hands, the goddess holds a papyriform sceptre, which is not specific to her, and an ankh-sign.

3) - To the right of the previous scene is a new independent scene where Kyky is paying homage to Amon-Ra (see sh-22). The two scenes are separated artistically by a column of text : "Justified by the Great God, the Osiris, the royal scribe, the chief accountant of the cattle of all gods of Thebes, Samut, justified in peace."