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Pashedu's tomb no. 3 at Deir el-Medina

The owner of the tomb 3 at Deir el-Medina was Pashedu, who lived in the settlement during the reigns of Sety I and Ramesses II. He had the title "Servant in the Place of Truth on the West of Thebes". He may also have been a "foreman" if he is to be identified with the person named in an inscription translated by Kitchen (Kitchen, 1993, p. 270). He was a stonemason responsible for the cutting of the corridors, chambers and pillared halls of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Pashedu was the son of Menna and Lady Huy. He and his wife, called Nedjem-Behdet, had five sons and daughters. Pashedu's son, Menna, was undoubtedly named after his grandfather. From the inscriptions in the tombs, it appears that Kaha was also Pashedu's son (Davies, 1999, p. 166). TT3 was discovered in 1834 by conscripts from the Egyptian army. The Scottish artist Robert Hay visited the tomb shortly afterwards and recorded its decorated walls (Weeks, 2005, p. 464).
At the bottom of the entrance stairs is the entrance to the first chamber, behind which is the second chamber.
A short vaulted passage leads to the third, innermost chamber. The walls of the passage are painted on both sides with jackals of Anubis lying on top of large white shrines with cavetto cornices. The god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
is depicted in the form of a falcon in the vaulted area above the doorway. His elaborately painted wings stretch out below a wedjat eye. The falcon is seated in a boat. There are 15 lines of hieroglyphic inscription. Pashedu's sons, Menna and Kaha, kneel beside the boat and worship the depicted gods (not shown).
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Pashedu and his wife sit in front of an offering table in
a small boat on the Abydos pilgrimage. One of their daughters sits at Nedjem-Behdet's feet. Both are dressed
in elegant pleated linen robes and have long, elaborately coiffed hair.
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The first deity is the falcon-headed Ra-Harakhty, followed by a human-headed Atum
The back wall of the innermost chamber depicts the god Osiris-Onnophris, ruler of the realm of the dead, on his throne with Mountain of the West behind him. Osiris wears a nemes-crown and holds a flail and a sceptre.
In front of him a seated god presents a bowl with burning cones. The inscription written in columns of black hieroglyphs contains the spell "light a lamp for Osiris".
(Málek,2003,222). Behind the throne of Osiris a small kneeling figure of Pashedu is depicted.
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The picture on the left shows two corner scenes. The scene on the right was taken from the left front wall of the burial chamber. It is one of the best known scenes from Thebes.
Pashedu is kneeling and bowing under a dom-palm at the edge of a pond. Around him are 21 columns of text. 17 are from chapter 62 of the Book of the Dead, the Chapter for Drinking Water in God's Domain.
The left scene is taken from the right wall of the burial chamber. Pashedu and his daughter Nebnefret are standing in front of four male deities and a djed-pillar.
Atum is followed by the scarab-headed Khepri (the morning form of the sun god), and the god Ptah. Behind Ptah stands the djed-pillar.
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On the vaulted ceiling of the innermost burial chamber there are sixteen deities, eight on each side. On the right side are Osiris, Isis and Nut.
...Nun and Nepthys...
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On the right side, there are:
Hathor, Ra-Harakhty, Neith...
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...Serqet, Anubis and Wepwawet
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...Geb, Anubis and Wepwawet
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The text on this page was written by Lenka Peacock
Photography © Mutnedjmet
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=27
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.
Sources:
1. Davies, Benedict G.: Who's who at Deir el-Medina : a prosopographic study of the royal workmen's community
Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor Her Nabije Oosten, 1999
2. Weeks, Kent R.: The treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
Cercelli : White Star Publishers, 2005
3. Kitchen, K. A.: Ramesside inscriptions : translated and annotated notes and comments I.
Oxford : Blackwell, 1993.
4. Málek, Jaromír: Egypt : 4000 years of art
London : Phaidon Press, 2003.
5. slideshow https://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/artisans/pached3/e_pached3_01.htm
Further bibliography
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