Kv13

One of the few tombs of the Valley of the Kings, not belonging to the royal person. This burial is dedicated to Irs , the ruler of Egypt during the XIX dynasty , who did not officially occupy the throne of the pharaoh of Egypt. However, he gained power and ordered the Egyptian Nomes to pay tribute to him.

Also, two sarcophagi of the reign of the Ramessids were discovered in the tomb, which once again shows the practice of repeated burials in abandoned tombs, which was popular for that time.

The tomb consists of three front corridors, followed by two halls, two internal corridors, two side halls and a burial chamber. The tomb was significantly affected by numerous floods (archaeologists claim at least four major floods) and most of the ceiling collapsed over time. Stucco wall paintings were also practically not preserved. We should stay only in those places where the thickness of the plaster was so insignificant that the cutter cut through the rock. From the remnants of the paintings, we can conclude that on the walls of the two front corridors were drawn images from the Book of the Dead .

As in the case of many other tombs, the first to explore the KV13 was the British traveler Richard Powock in the period 1737-1738. Later, visiting the tomb of Giovanni Belzoni (1817) and James Burton (1825).

A thorough study of the tomb from 1988 to 1994 was carried out by the German archaeologist and Egyptologist Hartwig Altenmüller .

During the demolition of debris in 1994, an additional layer of plaster was applied to the walls and ceiling in distant halls. To prevent further flooding of the tomb, a special canopy was built in front of the entrance.

• Description of the tomb KV13
• Bibliography for the tomb KV13 / Theban cartographic project.