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Originally posted by Djehuti:
^ Great find, Lioness! I'm still perusing through the photos. I love these digital photo libraries of Egyptian tombs.

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Any image of Kheruef was chiselled out wherever it was accessible. The only place where such an image survived is to be found in the south wing, under the throne of the sovereigns (whose names were left untouched everywhere). Nearby, slightly above, there is an instance where his image has been chiselled away

There might have been political reasons, especially if consideration were to be given to the chiselled erasures of names dating from the reign of Akhenaten: Kheruef might have been perceived as the disgraced former "strong man" from the time of Amenhotep III.

It is generally agreed that the persecutions attributed to Akhenaten took place in the last third of his reign, after the death of Queen Tiy. This queen, as mentioned above, was the wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and Akhenaten was their son. Amenhotep died in c.1353 BC, with Queen Tiy surviving for about another 14 years. If images or references to Kheruef could have been defaced at any time, it is possible (a hypothesis of Nims) that representations of Amenhotep III’s jubilee were not touched until after Queen Tiy’s death, out of respect for her.

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The photos are good quality and have some lesser known tombs but the lighting is shadowy in some. I think people would need special permission to put full lighting on some of these



(from a different photo source)

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