Tomb of Menna (TT69)

Entrance of the Tomb of Menna

The Tomb of Menna (TT69) is one of the most visited and best saved of the small 18th Dynasty elite tombs in the Theban graveyard, yet it has never been consistently recorded or fully documented. Constant trial over a long period and dropping environmental circumstances have taken their toll on the painted secret.

This project began in 2006 with a feasibility study reading the existing conditions to design an appropriate action plan for recording, preservation, tribute and publication of the tomb. Several major tasks were accomplished during 2007, developing the first full certification and conditions study of the tomb chapel.

Fishing View from
the tomb of Menna

In the first phase, the tomb and its environs were surveyed to create the first exact plan of the chapel surrou

Archaeometry, including XRF, RAMAN spectrographic analysis, and colorimetry, was done in the fourth form to document the physical and chemical belongings of the picture and its matrix as well as to aid conservators and art historiographers in their analytic thinking of the tomb. Recent work weighted on digging of the tomb burials and bearing an archaeological view of the fore court.

The second phase united high-resolution digital images with an extensive net of easy points taken inside of the tomb to make an exact plan of the wall painting and ceiling medallion for software documentation purposes, digital epigraphy function, and the final publication. Conservators carried out picking tests on taken areas of the wall paintings.

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