19/12/2024
Senjem Cemetery - Deir el-Medina, Grave TT1,
Ashiq Senjem in the Nineteenth Dynasty, during the reign of King Sethi I and the first years of Ramesses II. He was a servant in Dar al-Haqq, that is, a supervisor of the construction of the tombs of the kings.
His tomb was discovered in 1886.
He was the modern foreman at Deir el-Medina contributing to the construction of the tombs of the Egyptian Kingdom (1470 - 1070 BC). Senjem supervised the construction of the tombs of King Seti I and King Ramesses II.
The cemetery brought together three generations of the Sanjem family in the same crypt. At least ten mummies have been discovered. Nine of them have very beautiful wabits singly, single or double, painted and matted. And the eleven had no coffins
The tested burial chamber is a small stone with a vaulted ceiling. Its walls and ceiling are covered with beautiful scenes of bright colors.
A view representing the mummy of the deceased lying on a bed inside a cabin
There is a double view of Anubis in a black image, lying on top of his white palaces, and above their heads are drawn the eyes of “Ojat”.
A scene representing Anubis, the leader of Senjem. The scenes represent what he will do after death, and they plant and reap in beautiful white clothes, indicating that they will be honored in the afterlife and that they will have a farm that they plant and that will bear rich, rich fruits.
On the helmet of the vaulted burial chamber we see a scene of Ra-Horekheti, followed by the unknown Atum on a small calf, with two trees behind him.
There are devotional scenes of Sanjam and
It is written in front of him in hieroglyphs: “To the obedient one in the place of truth (In-Segm-Aash Em Set-Maat) Sin-Negum, truthfulness confessed.” One of this section in life is certain. He was among two staffs in the place of truth, which is the area of the tombs of the Egyptian kings in the Valley of the Kings, where it describes that Death is the great truth.
