KV1 or The tomb of Ramesses VII Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun can be ascertained at the becharm to the Valley of the Kings a bit way back of the road. Like a few of the other Ramesside tombs it has been afford since ancientness. The tomb experienced some refurbishment and cleanup by the SCA in 1994, and a new itinerary was assign in place.
Though KV1 is Ramesside in plan, and alike in decoration thereto of Ramesses VI, it is a much humbler tomb than those of the king’s late antecedents, belonging of just one corridor and a burying chamber.
Plan of KV1The outer header was decorated with the traditional sundisc arresting the scarab and flanked by Isis and Nephthys beneath the pharaoh’s names. In the astray corridor, the fine caliber alleviation decoration is strange – in situ of the Litany of Ra there are 2 aspects. On the left-hand face, the king is ascertained before an altar bidding to the falcon-headed solar deity Ra-Horakhty-Atum-Khepri, and on the right ahead Ptah-Sokar-Osiris with a hymn to the deities of the Underworld.
KV1Additional along, the initial scene and first class from the ‘Book of Gates’ (the barque of Ra being came through the Underworld) can be ascertained on the left, with the first aspects from the ‘Book of Caverns’ (the deities paying homage to the anxious sun-god) on the right. On either face the king is described as an Osiris, being distilled by the Iun-Mutef priest.
The cap of the corridor is decorated with marauders and the king’s cartouches.
The corridor leads consecutive into a sarcophagus hall without a well-room or anteroom. It's evoked that the tomb was designed in its abbreviated form since the king’s rule was belike to be abruptly. On the outer header is the common winged disc. The becharm wall exemplifies 2 goddesses; on the right a complex goddess Sekhmet-Bubastis-Wert-Hekau and on the left-hand, Wert-Hekau (Great of Magic) to each one cladding the door.
On the surrounds of the sarcophagus hall are aspects from the ‘Book of Aker’ (the double-headed lion which represents the horizon) and the (Book of the Earth). The northerly wall describes Osiris as (Chief of the Westerners). An astronomics ceiling boasts the goddess Nut debasing across the edens with the decans and configurations.
On the far side the burial chamber a belittled chamber with a corner. It’s outer walls display the king cladding the door on each face and offering to expressions of Osiris on the inner surrounds. The wall above the niche exemplifies the barque of the sun arresting baboons from the (Book of Gates) affirmed by djed-pillars on the faces of the niche.
The sarcophagus was cut direct into the floor of the tomb and over this core out was localised a monolithic stone addressing, decorated with the common engraved anatomies of Isis, Nephthys, Selkis and the 4 Sons of Horus. This is allay in situ, with an affording at its foot wherever the body of the pharaoh was absented. The mummy of Ramesses VII hasn't yet been discovered.
The grave of Ramesses VII is presently open to visitors. Fines for the King’s Valley cost EGP 80 for 3 tombs and can be frequented the gate.
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