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Sennedjem's tomb no 1 at Deir el-Medina

The tomb lies within the Western cemetery. It was discovered intact in 1886. The opening and clearing of this intact burial place was supervised by Gaston Maspero, the head of the Antiquities Service at the time. Twenty mummies, nine in coffins and eleven wrapped only in linen, were found in the vaulted burial chamber, which measures 5.12 m by 2.61 m and 2.40 m high. The owner of the tomb was Sennedjem, a "servant of the place of truth" who lived in the village at the beginning of the 19th dynasty and then shared this "house of eternity" with his wife Iyinofreti, their son Khons and daughter-in-law Tamakhet, and the lady Isis, wife of their second son Khabekhnet, together with their grandchildren. Both Sennedjem and his wife lived to a ripe old age. Iyinofreti's mummy, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, is that of a woman aged around 75.
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Sennedjem's house is in the south-west corner of the settlement. It is next to the house of his son Khabekhnet.
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Shabti of Sennedjem
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge E.9.1887. Limestone with pigment
Height 21.5 cm.
From Deir el-Medina, Tomb 1 of Sennedjem
New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, reign of Seti I, 1294-1279 BC
The shabti holds a broad-bladed hoe against his right shoulder and a pointed hoe against his left shoulder. A basket for seeds is depicted on his back, suspended from a rope over his right shoulder. The text calls upon the shabti as a servant, literally "hearer of the call", to act on behalf of Sennedjem when needed in any of the work being done at the necropolis.
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Shabti of Sennedjem
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Egyptian - Oriental Collection, Inv AE_INV_6614
New Kingdom
19th dynasty, around 1300 BC
From Deir el-Medina, Tomb 1 of Sennedjem
Limestone, painted
Height: 28.3 cm
Width: 9.95 cm
Depth:  8.8 cm
For the translation of the hieroglyphic inscription click here.
Photo by Lenka Peacock,2004
© The Fitzwilliam Museum
Photo by Lenka Peacock,2010
© Kunsthistorisches Museum

For detailed description of the tomb, follow the link to osirisnet.net:

https://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/artisans/sennedjem1/e_sennedjem1_01.htm

To view and browse the digitised version of The Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, (also known as Porter & Moss or TopBib) for this tomb, go to

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/topbib/pdf/pm1-1.pdf#page=19
 

Material for the Bibliography is gathered from an ever-expanding range of multi-lingual sources, encompassing both specialist and semi-popular Egyptological and Near Eastern publications, periodicals, museum guides, exhibition and auction catalogues, together with the growing wealth of web resources. The Bibliography also analyses a range of unpublished manuscripts, including those housed in the Griffith Institute Archive. Published in May 2014 by the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, the volumes are constantly revised and augmented.

22 September 2019, Nevine El-Aref for ahram-online

"The anthropoid coffin of Sennedjem, who was the overseer of workers at Deir Al-Medina necropolis in Luxor, arrived to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) where it was unpacked. Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany witnessed the unpacking process.

The mummy of Sennedjem was removed from the coffin after the unpacking to enter the fumigation tent.

El-Enany described the fumigation process like medical surgery, to restore and preserve the mummy under the direction of skilled restorers.

Ahmed El-Sherbini, supervisor general of the NMEC, said that the coffins of Sennedjem and one of his wives are in a very good state of conservation and were previously exhibited at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, amongst the funerary collection of Sennedjem found inside his tomb discovered in 1886 by French Egyptologist Maspero.

Both coffins are painted anthropoid coffins with mummies of the deceased inside"

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/351273.aspx

Sources:
1. Farid, Hany and Farid, Samir: Unfolding Sennedjem's tomb In:
KMT: A modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Spring 2001. Pp. 1-8.
2, Hobson, Christine: Exploring the world of the pharaohs
London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
3. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/351273.aspx
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