The Late Period tomb of Montuemhat (TT 34) in Western Thebes/Egypt between tradition and legacy

蒙特梅特的陵墓(TT 34)于公元前7世纪上半叶在底比斯建造，是古埃及最大的墓地之一，里面有非常高质量的广泛、多样的装饰。此外，两个庭院的墙壁和柱子以及60多个房间、楼梯和通道的装饰部分已有1600多年的历史，同时完全从坟墓装饰中消失了。因此，蒙特梅特的陵墓代表了古代主义晚期开始的最重要的纪念碑之一。拟议的项目首先寻求广泛地追寻TT 34中的装饰传统，并澄清装饰是否以及如何追溯到特定的时间、地点和纪念碑，以及依赖是什么。第二个目的是展示蒙特梅特陵墓的装饰-就像底比斯类似时代的进一步墓葬结构-是如何被后来的墓主恢复的，就其本身而言，它代表着一项扩展到该国北部的发展的开始。

The tomb of Monthemhet (TT 34), constructed in Thebes in the first half of the 7th century BCE and one of ancient Egypt’s biggest burial sites, contains extensive, varied decoration of an extremely high quality. Additionally, the walls and pillars in the two courtyards and the 60+ rooms, staircases and passageways were provided with decoration that is in part over 1,600 years old, and had in the meantime totally disappeared from grave decoration. Monthemhet’s tomb thus represents one of the most important monuments from the beginning of Late Period archaism. The proposed project firstly seeks to extensively pursue the tradition of the decoration in TT 34, and to clarify whether and how the decoration refers back to specific times, places and monuments, as well as what the dependencies are. The second aim is to show how the decoration in Monthemhet’s tomb – just like that in further burial structures of a similar age in Thebes – was reverted to by later tomb owners, and for its part represented the start of a development that spread out into the north of the country.