This paper aims to analyze the role of selected reused tombs in the religious landscape of the Theban necropolis in the 1st millennium BCE. Discussed are three monuments (TT 192, AT -28-, and the so-called Hanging Tomb) and the possible links between their original owners and the deceased buried in them in the Third Intermediate…
Are Women the Key to Understanding the Kushite Presence in Egypt? Several Remarks on Thebes during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
This paper highlights several issues regarding the Kushite presence in Twenty-fifth Dynasty Thebes. The Nubian influence in the iconography of the chapel of Osiris Heqa-Djet is discussed, as well as problems related to the identification of Kushites in the Theban necropolis, with the possible hints pointing to the Kushite connections of the deceased individuals previously…