THE
ROCK
TOMBS
OP
EL
AMARNA.
PART
VI.
CHAPTEB
I.
THE
TOMB
OF
PARENNEFER
fe).
Tomb
No.
7
1
is
the
northernmost
of
the
tombs
of
the
South
Group,
being
excavated
at
the
extreme
end
of
the
line
of
foot-hills
(IV.
xiii.).
Lying
high
up
on
a
steep
slope,
its
entrance
was
probably
always
traceable,
if
not
actually
open.
A
road
which
leads
from
it
to
the
city
across
the
plain
helps
to
mark
down
the
site.
The
name
of
the
owner
is
injured
wherever
it
occurs,
and
the
reading
adopted
here
is
due
to
a
shrewd
guess
of
the
late
M.
Bouriant.
A.
Architectural
Features.
Exterior.—The
tomb
is
a
very
unpretentious
one
of
the
cross-corridor
type,
but
is
singular
in
possessing
a
fully-decorated
facade
(PI.
ii.).
The
door-framing
shows
on
the
lintel
the
royal
family
worshipping
to
right
and
left
of
an
altar
on
which
the
sun
casts
its
rays.
On
the
jambs
there
is
only
the
group
of
five
cartouches
written
in
a
horizontal
line
below
the
sun-disc.
The
smoothed
wall
to
right
and
left
of
the
doorway
is
occupied
by
reliefs,
the
upper
parts
of
which
have
been
erased
by
the
whirling
sands
of
centuries.
The
two
pictures
exhibit,
with
differences
merely
of
grouping,
the
conventional
scene
of
the
worship
of
Aten
by
the
King
and
1
"
The
north-easternmost
tomb
behind
Hadgi-Qandeel"
of
Hay
;
No.
3
of
Lepsius.
A
sketch-plan
of
the
tomb
is
given
in
Mon.
du
culte
d'Atonou,
I.,
p.
125.
Queen,
accompanied
by
their
household.
There
are
three
princesses,
and,
though
the
inscriptions
are
broken,
it
is
easy
to
perceive
as
well
the
figure
of
Benretmut,
the
Queen's
sister,
officiat¬
ing
as
fan-bearer
and
ranking
after
the
royal
children.2
Nothing
appears
in
the
details
of
the
picture
which
is
not
already
familiar
from
similar
scenes.
The
supplementary
picture
which
is
so
often
set
below
the
main
scene
has
been
executed
only
on
the
left
(north)
side.
Here
the
royal
chariots
and
the
rest
of
the
body-guard
make
halt
at
a
respectful
distance,
and
here,
too,
Parennefer
is
seen
making
his
private
offering.
The
posi¬
tion
facing
the
King
which
is
given
him
seems
to
indicate
that
his
homage
is
directed
to
the
monarch
rather
than
to
the
god.
He
kneels
in
front
of
one
of
the
little
chapels
or
magazines
which
the
pictures
of
the
temple
show
in
such
numbers,
and
the
due
paraphernalia
of
offering
set
out
before
him
are
also
in
accord.
It
appears
then
as
if
Parennefer
was
making
his
gift
in
one
of
the
side
chapels,
while
the
royal
family
worshipped
at
the
great
altar.
Possibly
this
chapel
is
meant
to
be
that
one
in
the
temple
which
was
connected
with
his
own
tomb-endow¬
ment
(wa/cf),
and
where
the
offerings
for
the
2
The
second
figure
in
the
upper
register
on
the
right
hand;
effaced
in
the
left-hand
scene.
Cf.
Pis.
iv.,
xvi.,
xvii.,
xxvi.,
xxviii.;
II.,
v.,
vii.,
viii.;
V.,
iii.,
v.
b
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