KV54

Tomb KV54 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. It was originally excavated by Edward R. Ayrton on behalf of the American lawyer Theodore M. Davis, who funded the work.

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Egyptian tomb.name: KV54
Egyptian tomb.owner: Tutankhamun's embalming cache
Egyptian tomb.image: Papyrus Lid from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache MET VS09.184.252B.jpeg
Egyptian tomb.caption: Papyrus lid from KV54, Tutankhamun's embalming cache (Metropolitan Museum)
Egyptian tomb.location: East Valley of the Kings
Egyptian tomb.date: 21 December 1907
Egyptian tomb.excavated: Edward R. Ayrton for Theodore M. Davis
Egyptian tomb.layout: Square pit
Egyptian tomb.prev: KV53
Egyptian tomb.next: KV55

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Area: 2.00
Image: KV54-Pottery-Dishes-OtherItems MetropolitanMuseum.png
Length: 1.69

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described at URL: thebanmappingproject.com/sites/default/files/plans/KV_50-54_1.pdf
Commons category: KV54
time of discovery or invention: 1907-00-00

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Tomb KV54 is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. It was originally excavated by Edward R. Ayrton on behalf of the American lawyer Theodore M. Davis, who funded the work.

==History== Not as much a tomb as a small pit located near the tomb of Seti I, it contained about a dozen large sealed storage jars. Within the jars were equipment and objects that had been carefully packed. It contained pottery, dishes, bags of natron, animal bones, floral collars and linen containing text dated to the final years of the then (1907) little-known pharaoh Tutankhamun.