Davies Norman de Garris. The tomb of two sculptors at Thebes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925. — 213 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition; Robb de Peyster Tytus memorial series 4).Tomb 181 at Thebes, the subject of the present memoir, received The Egyptian tomb a prifrom Pere Scheil, its first editor, a designation, "Tombeau des Graveurs," vate, not a common which is misleading in so far as it suggests that this was a sepulchre grave common to a professional guild rather than one of persons connected as usual by family ties. The name offered a convenient evasion of the problem set by the incomplete and unprecise records of the tomb as to the real owner and his relation to another person equally, or almost equally, prominent on its walls. But it lightly leapt over the obstacle that, with few exceptions, the Theban tomb is the personal possession of a single householder who, though he may often have offered its hospitality to many members of the family besides his own descendants and possibly even to humbler members of his household, so jealously guarded his proprietary rights and exclusive enjoyment of the burial privileges which the pictures and prayers in the tomb ensured him, that he allowed no other name to be linked with his, nor any visible record of subordinate burials to appear upon the walls.