Theban Tomb 100

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Theban Tomb 100 (TT 100, the Tomb of Rekhmire) is a rock cut tomb of originally Eighteenth Dynasty date situated on the hill of Sheikh ʿAbd el-Qurna on the West Bank of Luxor in southern Egypt. The tomb was built for the vizier Rekhmire, who administered Upper Egypt in the reign of Thutmose III and possibly also that of his son Amenhotep II.

TT 100 represents a valuable source for information regarding the office of vizier in the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty, inluding within its paintings, reliefs and inscriptions not merely the texts known as the Duties of the Vizier and the Installation of the Vizier, but also scenes depicting the vizier in receipt of taxes and tribute from Upper Egypt, from the oases and from various foreign lands.

Bibliography

• Davies, Norman de Garis [1935], Paintings from the Tomb of Rekh-mi-Re‘ at Thebes (with plates in color from copies by Nina de Garis Davies and Charles K. Wilkinson), New York: [Plantin Press], 1935.
  • [1943], The Tomb of Rekh-mi-Rēʿ at Thebes, [Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 11], 2 volumes, New York: The Plantin Press, 1943.

External links

• The Tomb of Rekhmire - PBS Nova (includes Quicktime panorama of the tomb)