Luxor
Both tombs’ chapel areas have the standard T-shaped layout for this period consisting of a transverse hall that leads to a straight long hall. The transverse hall of each tomb is decorated with scenes from the owner’s life, while the long hall is decorated with funerary scenes.
The two tombs were reused during the Late Period (664–332 BC), when rooms and funerary shafts were added.
The transverse hall of the tomb of Amenhotep-Rabuia has beautiful scenes depicting agriculture, the harvesting of grains, their storage in granaries, breadmaking, and potters at work. It also boasts beautiful banqueting scenes as well as a false-door and what remains of a biographical text. The long hall shows representations of Amenhotep’s funeral procession, the Opening of the Mouth ritual, as well as a rare scene of the deceased making offerings to the agricultural fertility goddess Renenutet, who is depicted breastfeeding a royal child.
The tomb of Samut was left unfinished, but it too features beautiful banqueting scenes and a false-door.
Although the title shared by father and son appears to be of rather low rank, both chapels have been decorated with great skill and taste. Their tomb paintings can be placed among the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian painting.
The two tombs date to the reigns of:
Thutmose III (1481 – 1425 BCE)
Thutmose IV (1400 – 1389 BCE)
