Sennefer (Deir el-Medina)

[4] Furthermore, the burial contained different types of furniture, including a bed, a box, a head rest and several pottery as well as stone vessels.

He was titled "servant in the Place of Truth" which indicates that he worked on the cutting and decorating of royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

He lived during the late 18th Dynasty; his burial is usually assigned to the reign of Tutankhamun based on the style of his coffins and funerary goods.

He had healed fractures to his wrist and a rib, a dent across the top of his head from an old injury, and many of his vertebrae have signs of osteoarthritis.

[12] Sennefer's intact tomb was discovered on 1 February 1928 by workmen supervised by George Nagel in excavations conducted by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) and led by the French Egyptologist Bernard Bruyère.

[13] The tomb was officially opened on the morning of 7 February 1928 in the presence of Egyptologists including Pierre Lacau, director of the Antiquities Service and members of the IFAO teams.

Nagel confirmed that the tomb had not been disturbed since its initial discovery; those present then entered and viewed the burial chamber.

Sennefer's coffin was placed on a bier (funerary bed) and covered with a shroud; on the chest was a square cloth with a painted scene of him sitting before an offering table and inscribed with his name and title.

To the south, at the feet of the coffins, was a box with a pitched lid that supported a folding stool; both were once covered with a fabric shroud.

[14] Although the tomb was untouched by modern robbers and is thought to be intact, Bruyère considered it to have been anciently robbed, based on the small number of burial goods (which included disturbed objects and broken pottery), the roughly closed doorway, and parts of funerary bouquets and a broken statuette among in the shaft fill.

[17] On top of the chest and abdomen of his mummy were bunches of white lotuses with their stems tied in loops and three garlands made of vine and willow leaves.

A multi-stranded necklace composed of small beads of carnelian, turquoise, lapis lazuli, gold, and bone was found around her neck.

The larger of the two rings is silver and its bezel depicts a seated goddess with cow horns, possibly Hathor.

The smaller ring is possibly electrum, a mix of gold and silver, and the bezel is incised with a design of a Hathor-cow in a papyrus swamp.