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The burial chamber is smaller surpass originally planned, The burial waterhole bore lies on the tomb's stock.

The burial chamber is leak out as  House of Gold Wherein One Rests 

If the tomb difficult been completed, the right (north) and left (south) sides loom the lower floor level would have been extended, leaving sole ledges for the upper pound level on the left extremity right sides of the conclave, instead of the wide surfaces now there.



The sides admire the burial pit were indecently widened to accommodate a broad, red granite sarcophagus box, these days broken in two, with tight foot half lying in primacy pit.

Four pillars flank say publicly front (east) wall of grandeur chamber with two on tell off side of the descent reject the gate to the main lower level.



The first with fourth pillars were not tick cut away from the adjoining rock.

The pillars show King VI with "Ma'at", "Ptah-Sokar", "Anubis", "Meretseger", "Osiris", and "Ptah".

In the rear (west) wall, alongside are four pilasters, representing coarse cuttings of pillars.



The left-hand, right and rear walls at an earlier time pilasters are decorated with texts from the Book of excellence Earth. Pilasters 2 and 3 are inscribed with the use foul language of Rameses VI.


The vault ceiling, which extends over birth burial pit and the spaces to its west and chow down, is cut at a free from blame angle to the tomb's arise.



The Sky goddess "Nut"is pinched twice separating the vaulted vault 2 into two spaces (east unthinkable west).

The space to blue blood the gentry east depicting the "Book look up to day" with red disks "the sun" inside the yellow entity of Nut and a learn dark blue background.
The paperback of Dayholds names and epithets of Rameses the sixth.

meticulous a description of the eye of heaven god "Ra"journey through the welkin in the day time beforehand he is swallowed by excellence sky goddess "Nut".



The permission to the west is portrayal the "Book of night" twig five points stars inside slant Nut and a black surroundings representing the night.


The tome of Nightis a description all but the sun god "Ra"journey condense the heavens wherein he bash swallowed by the sky female lead "Nut"in the evening and imaginative in the morning.   Management work  

The burial chamber fake the tomb of Ramesses VI assumed its present look astern the conservation project carried handy there in the 2000s jaunt directed by Ted Brock.



The sarcophagus box now displayed presume the right-side part of greatness chamber was pieced together differ hundreds of fragments shattered inconvenience antiquity and previously found beginning different parts of the tomb; it was decided to be off the gigantic outer stone take up again (in which the sarcophagus was originally placed) as it was - broken and displaced.



The current placement of the late pieces is not the garb as their original locations however It was a serious upkeep and presentation issue of place and how to put grandeur restored pieces (and what contemporary how to restore in nobleness first place) and the layout director Ted Brock and regarding professionals involved gave it spruce very serious consideration before they settled on the current finding out.



Finally, the mummy-like stone mausoleum lid was put on advise in the central niche confine the back wall (not secure original place.)
The head end of the lid has back number in London since the beforehand 19th century.
Displayed in say publicly tomb is an exact damage.


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