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The tomb of Kakm

At Qubet-el Hawa
Aswan
Dr/Inass Mustafa
Abstract:
The tomb of Kakm which is located at the foot of the hill of
Qubet el Hawa this tomb is one of the distinguished tombs in
Aswan have it dis -covered by Lady Cecil in 1901 and she made
her excavations brief report about it within a large group of
tombs in the region and since then there has been no studies on
the tomb, despite the importance attached to tomb from several
aspect The tomb is belong to the Middle Kingdom and re-used
in the New Kingdom
Where the priest (Kakm) (Black Bull), the high priest of the god
Khnum and the supervisor of all the priests of Elephantine re
decorated again and put his titles and use it and there is a set
things intriguing in this tomb, including For example it is the
only entrance, which opens towards the south at while all the
tombs in the region open towards the north and maybe the owner
wanted to open up towards the temple of Hqa-Ib or Khnum
cemetery .Unlike the entrance of the tomb containing a set of
motifs, which dates back to the era of New Kingdom , which we
see tombs of nobles in Luxor said in their inscriptions (Mrt- Sjr)
the goddess of the Theban necropolis in strikingly feature,
raising the possibility that (Kakm) may works in Thebes for
some time or he was originally Theban preferred to be buried
here. The tomb is containing an open courtyard in front, and
Hall, two of burial chamber and on both sides of the open gate of
the yard on the right pits graves and to the left another pit, but
nothing inside. Open courtyard rectangle containing six columns
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bases which was carrying a court side roof while the centre
remain opened. in the northern wall of the front entrance to the
lounge has partially cut into the rock, and built with the stones,
and the end wall cut into the rock face. Four square columns on
the columns and the ceiling inscriptions represent the remains of
the tomb owner after the hall a corridor leading to two burial
chambers one of them is still has the coffin, which model was
due to the end of the nineteenth dynasty
Key words:
Tomb – open court -hall – inscriptions – kakm –burial chamber –
sarcophagus -

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Location:
The tomb Carrying No. 15 in the excavation report published by
the original discovered Lady Cecil the tomb located to the
northeast of the Qubet el-Hawa in Aswan at the bottom of the
slope within the range of the of the Old and Middle Kingdom
tombs and a road paved with small pieces of stone have
disappeared and covered with sand leads to it. Cecil had been
found the tomb in the excavation season 1901-1902 and she
made her excavations brief report about it within a large group of
tombs in the region (Cecil,1903,p 60) and since then there has
been no studies on the tomb, despite the importance attached to
tomb from several aspect The tomb is belong to the old Kingdom
and re-used in the New Kingdom
And the tomb is particularly important for several reasons
including that it only tomb for New Kingdom in this spot within
the tombs of Old and Middle Kingdoms, as it is the only which
opens from the south while the rest of the tombs region open
from the northern side which may justify the re-use more than
once since its entrance facing the temple Ḥqa-ib and the cemetery
of Khnum(1) and we can't ignore the connection between the
1-
Khnemu, the first member of the great triad of Abu, or Elephantine, one of the oldest
gods of Egypt, we find him mentioned in the text of Unas in such a way as to show that
even at the remote period of the reign of that king his cult was very old. Khnemu always
held an exalted position among the ancient gods of their country, It is probable that
Khnemu was one of the gods of the predynastic Egyptians who live immediately before the
archaic period, for his symbol was the flat-horned ram, and that animal appears to have
been introduced into Egypt from the East; he disappears from the monuments before the
period of the XIIth Dynasty. In the text of Unas the name of Khnemu is found in a section
which contains twenty-five short paragraphs, the greater number of which must certainly
date from a period far older than the reign of this king,. Khnemu is represented on the
monuments in the form of a ram headed man who usually holds in his 'hands the scepter
and the sign of life, -. He wears the White Crown, to which are sometimes attached plumes,
uraei, a disk.The name of Khnemu is connected with the root khnem "to join, to unite," and
with khnem, " to build"(Budge,1904,vol2,p49)
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positions of the tomb owner as Khnum priest and the direction of

his tomb
The owner:
The tomb belonging to (the high priest of Khnum and Satt and
ᶜnket
,and ( superintendent
of all the priests of Elephantine Kakm) which the original
discover Lady Cecil misreading his name and mentioned him as
"Ka -jmo"(Cecil,1903,p60) and he mentioned in (PM,1962 vol V,
p237) as (Kakmt) and Ranke mentioned it as 'Kakm-Kakmw' in
(Ranke,1935,PN, 1,p338) the name belong to the New kingdom
and by rereading the writing of his names and titles repeated on
the walls and columns of the tomb I found the name was "Kakm
" Which means 'black bull'
Kakm has chosen his tomb carefully. According to Cecil, the
tomb was back to the Old Kingdom, depending on the existence
of burial pit in the open court covered with stone slabs full of
predynastic pottery.
Kakm reused the tomb again in New Kingdom and probably in
the late the nineteenth dynasty.
The tomb descriptions:
The tomb consists of the open courtyard, hall and two burials
chambers one of them appears to have been misled. The tomb
plan which was drawn by Cecil misses to some of the
architectural features, which seems to have been later discovered
also carries some errors of the details already exist(fig.1)

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(fig.1)
Notes
- The two tomb pits to the right directly before the entrance
drawn as one in the original plan but they have two openings pits
between them separation wall with thickness of 18 cm. So it is
clear that the second hole appeared later during the cleaning and
restorations
-the
the wall to the right directly before the entrance should be
returned back to bring the two openings inside the campus of the
tomb
- directly after the entrance to the right appears tow tombs holes
on the floor of the courtyard this holes is only one in the original
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plan, it has been discovered during the restoration which resulted

the moving of the third column to the right from its original place
- To the left and right of the hall are two small niches
The tomb consists of entrance leads to an open courtyard on both
sides of the entrance to the right there are two tomb pits the first
one is Engraved in the rock (Cecil) found in it late untouched
burial completely eaten by white ants accompanied by a three
pots , raising from the site when it cleaned, the sealing of this
tomb as Cecil said made of rough stones without mortar .the
length of the pit 2m, 1m width , and 50 cm depth .beside of this
tomb another opened pit filled with sand, separated by a wall of
stone and seems to have found later where it did not appear in the
original excavation report (fig.2)

(fig.2)
` And to the left there is another pit found her on the sets of
pottery vessels from various periods and both slots filled with
sand and the need to clean up.(fig.3)

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(fig.3)
1-The Open courtyard:
Then the entrance to the open courtyard, which has a display and
lined with stone shoulders has a 1.20 m width and 1.00 m
thickness immediate -ly after the entrance is located inside the
floor of the open courtyard two tomb pits (fig.4) just after the
entrance and both pits were covered with stone slabs and it seems
that one of them was of white plaster, both filled with sand. Cecil
found the first one untouched with its original sealing and found
inside passage filled with refuse rock and sand cut out in making
it. And in this rubbish she found a small red and black pots
similar to the predynastic pottery and inside was untouched
burial a wooden coffin and the mummy has eaten entirely by
whit ants and eleven rough pots around the body five of them
was red pottery with clay seals. The second pit have not been
mentioned by the original excavation report it seems to have
found while restoration of the court by the Ministry of
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Fig.4 The courtyard pit (Cecil, 1903 4fig3)

After the entrance is the courtyard with a length of 5.5 meters

and width of 6.5 m, which contains six sandstone square
columns bases three on each side, and it seems that these
columns was carrying the roof of single side portico along the
sides of the courtyard, which is supposed to protect the drawings
on the walls. Four columns bases are similar in shape and
dimensions of 50 x66 cm while the two others similar in shape
and dimensions of 80x56 cm it is clear that some of these bases
moved from their original locations.(fig.5)

(fig.5)

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The walls of the courtyard show a thin layer of white plaster and
the remains of drawings, on the right side of the north wall of the
back and directly next to the hall entrance remains of in red
drawing boat above White plaster.(fig.6)

(fig.6)
And on the left side from the same wall a remains of man’s legs
walking towards the entrance of the hall.(fig.7)

(fig.7)
And on the western wall on the left the courtyard appear in light
red colour remains of funeral boat with a man in front of the boat.
(fig.8)

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(fig.8)
On the south side directly to the left of the entrance the layer of
white plaster disappeared and on the same wall in the corner the
remains of drawing represent goddesses and the remains of the
crown believed to belong to Isis.(fig.9)

(Fig.9)
As presented in (PM,, vol V, p240) there was to the left in the
upper part a scene view of the deceased judgement in front of
Osiris and goddesses and in the lower part Two mourners in
before the offerings and the deceased kneeling in front of Hathor
the Lady of the Western mountain and to the right of the entrance
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is assumed that There was a scene to the mourning

m women before
mummy in front of the tomb , all these scenes now disappeared
due to falling plaster layer and the strange thing is that the scenes
that still exists to the boats were not mentioned.
Unfortunately, the white plaster layer found in the courtyard
suffering from serious cracks and about to disappear entirely
In the northern wall of the courtyard where the door leading to
the hall up to the wall on both sides of the door there two niches
the right side one almost disappeared and the left side one with
dimensions of 00 .60 m length and 00.43 m width and 00.20 m
depth. In both sides of the door leading to the hall appears two
stone shoulders super-sized!!
sized!! The right-side
right one with dimension
of 1.50 m width and 86 cm thickness and the sand cover cove the
lower part and the left side one with dimension of 130 cm width
and a thickness of 80 cm and both shoulders have a side channel
to allow the existence of a sliding door. That the distance
between the shoulders not exceeding 00.72 m it's less than the
width of the door amounting to 1.10 cm and does not allow the
passage of the sarcophagus slot. So it's likely that it may it was
built after the completion of the tomb and entering the
sarcophagus.(fig.10)

fig.10

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2-The hall:
The entrance leads to a four-square
square columns hall which Cecil
called it the mortuary chapel and this hall is the most important
part in the tomb since it is the only decorated part in it (fig.11).
and the dimensions of this hall are 6.5 m width and 6 meters long
the ceiling of the hall rises, about 1.60 m from the ground and the
four square columns with the same length and width 60x60 cm
and1.60 m height and in the back wall there is the niche which
was placed in it the deceased's statue and its length 00.90 m and
00.87 m width, 1.28 m depth. The columns on the left keep some
of their drawings on a layer of white plaster.

Fig.11
The columns:
On the east side of the first column to the left a scene of the priest
Kakm in front of the goddess Isis and the image the priest here
carry the same drawings features of the Nineteen dynasty
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wearing a white robe and put pectoral has a small beard(2) and
raises his right hand in a devotional position above the scene of
the priest and the upper register of the
column is bordered at the top by a heavy frieze of god Anubis the
guardian of the necropolis . pictured in his dog form, perched in
his watchful eminence on the necropolis monument, with
khekers ornament in its later form with the around him the
names and titles of the deceased This decoration were common in
the tombs of the nobles in West Thebes in the nineteenth
dynasty(ex,tomb n.409 samwt, keky Qurnh)(fig.12).
And on the south side of the same column the deceased appear in
the form of priest poured purification water in front of the god
Osiris Lord of the Westerners surmounted by his titles which is
missing, (fig.13)
The other two side of the same column the plaster layer that
covered them has fallen and the scenes disappear

1 - The small short goatee beard, looking like that of a goat widened at the
base, it seems false This is worn by notables and courtiers
Desroches-N, Ch, 1947 p185-232
Green. L : 2001,Vol 2, , p.73-76

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Fig .12 fig.13

The second column to the left and on the east side of it the
remains of scene depicting the god Anubis standing in a human
form with red body and yellow dress we supposed that in front
of him was the deceased but the drawing disappeared.(fig14)
disappeared.(fig1

Fig.14

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The appearance of the deceased in front of one of Gods on every

side of the columns makes us conclude the existence of sixteen
gods at least beside those on the walls of course all of them
disappeared now , as the scenes on the walls leaving only the
scenes
es that we mentioned in addition to the ceiling drawings
The ceiling:
The ceiling of this hall is divided into three sections. The first
runs along the axis of the entrance, the other two, on either side
of this.
The central ceiling part along the axis of the entrance is divided
into three sections the first two separated by yellow band on
which is written text in black hieroglyphs. The third is next to the
entrance and almost disappear and separated from the others by a
big sign pt with blue paint and yellow stars. In the first two
registers (fig.15)

fig.15
The one to the left decorated with white flying pigeons(3) with
blue heads the ground colored yellow and there is a small desert

3- Pigeon was considered highly valuable, a prized fertilizer for vegetables and fruits,.
Pigeon feathers were used to stuff cushions. The Egyptians used carrier pigeons. According
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plants in the spaces between the birds. The wild pigeons were
sometimes
mes pictured in ancient Egyptian paintings and reliefs of
wildlife along the Nile, (fig.16)

Fig. 16
the second section decorated with flying wild ducks(4) with red
heads on yellow ground some of them with white and blue heads
and wings and some with white and red wings we can notes the
aquatic plants in the spaces between the birds .(fig.17)
.(fig.1

to the Harris Papyrus, the oblations Ramses III gave to the Temple of Amun at Karnak
included 6,510 doves and 57,810 pigeons. Priests were forbidden from eating pork, pigeon,
mutton, garlic, or onions. A fragment from Deir el-Medina
el records a transaction of 25
pigeons for a goat. Even the deceased enjoyed a feast of poultry - the preserved dinner
found in the tomb of an elderly woman
oman buried at Sakkara included pigeon stew.
stew
4-Wild
Wild ducks were a favorite prey for hunters. They were flushed out of their hiding places
by dogs, then captured with nets or brought down by throw sticks. Ducks were often
pictured in the marshes in Egyptian paintings and reliefs of wildlife scenes. Duck was a
popular food, and ducks were buried with the dead and offered to the gods .The Egyptian
hieroglyphic for "duck" was very common, and was used in words such as "fly," "alight,"
"tremble," "cleanliness," "enter," "son," and "daughter." Images of ducks decorated
jewelry, furniture, clothing, and cosmetic tools. Like the goose, a duck with a turned-back
head symbolized eroticism and rebirth.( https://cowofgold.wikispaces.com)
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fig.17
The third register of the central part directly after the hall
entrance almost vanished leaving only small parts of the scene
(fig.18)) under the sign of the sky pt (in my visualization), there
were a group of blue baboon depending on the existence of tail
and body part of baboon then separation line andan in the second
scene a parts of blue feathers and raising hand (fig.19)
(fig.1 maybe it
was to one of the godss and remains of vertical text (
) .There is a similar scene in the tomb of
Djehutyemheb TT45 at Sheikh Abd el-Gurnahel , which dates
back and Eighteen Dynasty and re--used and decorated in the
reign of Rameses II, of course, with a difference in some
elements(see Davies, Gardiner, 1948, pl.IX)

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Fig.18

Fig.19
The second sections of the roof to the right divided into four
registers of motifs (fig.20)) separated by three lines of hieroglyph-
hieroglyph
icc writings and this kind of decorations popular in the tombs of
the nobles in Luxor and called (the carpet) The first register is
yellow interlocking
ing spirals of patterns, forming white spaces
filled with motifs such as the blue lotus flower, the second
register simple blue flowers with four petals on a white ground.
The third register bows floral ribbons white and blue alternately
with a flower insidede on yellow ground. The fourth is a yellow
spiral with blue lotus on white ground. The four registers
separates by ribbons of black hieroglyphic writing on a yellow
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ground, the first and last lines almost disappeared the common
motifs is the floral composition
ition as a main component.

1 2 3 4
fig.20
The third sections to the right is also divided into another four
different motifs (fig.21)) in which the floral composition spreads
and depends on alternating colors the first register interlocking
spirals pattern connect and forming white spaces filled with blue
lotus flower and using many colors such red -blue - light blue
and yellow on white ground such pattern already exist in many
tombs replacing the lotus with other motif. The second register is
very simple and beautiful one White flower with eight petals
inside circle with dark blue ground in a row and in the second
row the same flower in yellow alternating with white flower and
spaces between them filled with red color. The third register is
yellow spirals ribbons with almost square designs with white
and blue and red colored space in the white shape a blue square
and in the blue shape a red square and in the red shape a blue
square the three colors alternating. The fourth register formed
overlapping white circles forming rosettes, joined by black
bordered. Blue, light blue, red fields are created inside the
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rosettes. The blue ones contain a red disc at the centre bordered
in white, the red ones contain rectangular blue centre.

1 2 3 4
fig.21
The ceiling inscriptions:
In the middle of the central section of the ceiling decorations set
religious text. A line of hieroglyphs extends along the hall axis
and on both sides there are three lines of short overwriting the
existing ones to the right missing many parts, the texts containing
offering formula provided by the priest Kakm to a number of
gods .the writing written in black over yellow ribbons, this kind
of decorations that we've seen followed in the New kingdom and
can be seen clearly in the tombs of both the Userhat TT51 and
Huy TT40 and Nefersekheru TT296 and others.
I copy the text from the original report, which was written by
Cecil to make remarks on it
Line in the middle of the ceiling (Cecil 1903, p61)

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Translation:

"Offering to Osiris-Ptah -Sokar that found in (Shteit) -the name

of the tomb - Nefertum. Hor Ruler of wind son of the great
goddess the Divine Mother Isis .Anubis His double shrine (for
Osiris and Anubis) to give bread and beer and bulls and the
geese......... Milk (for the pure spirit)
pirit) The superintendent of the
priests of Khnum and Satt and ᶜnket
nket . Kakm the justified one"
Notes:

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-the word inpw in cecil text lost the letter which

already exist in the original text
2-The three left side lines:

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Translations:

-Offerings
Offerings for Nefertum smites of the Two Lands Ptah Soker
Osiris who are in Shteit may given bread and the pour water of
the West his soul all the gods of Elephantine the High Priest of
Khnum Kakm the justified one
-Offerings
Offerings for Mrtsjr Mistress of the west offered to me
provisions in the presence of the powerful gods of the earth The
High Priest of Khnum Satt The ᶜnket Kakm the justified one

-Offerings Maᶜt daughter of Rᶜ( 5)to be given

5- M c t: she was the feminine counterpart of Thoth, stood with him in the boat of
Ra when the Sun-god god rose above the waters of the primeval Nu for the first time.
The symbol of this goddess is the ostrich feather, She is represented in the form of
a woman seated, or standing,
tanding, holding a scepter, in one hand, and, the emblem of
"life," in the other; in many pictures of her provided with a pair of wings which are
attached to her arms, and in cases she has the body of a woman with an ostrich
feather for a head. The goddess Mᶜtt was the personification of physical and moral
law, and order and truth. In connection with the Sun god Ra she indicated the
regularity with which he rose and set in the sky, and the course which he followed
daily from east to west. Thus in a hymn to Ra R we read, "The land of Manu
"received thee with satisfaction, and the goddess Maat embraced "thee both at
morn and at eve" ", she was the lady of the Judgment Hall, and she became the
personification of justice, who awarded to every man his due; judging by b some
vignettes which represent the weighing of the heart she took at times the form of
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Notes:
- in the second line we see here is the offering formula submitted
to the goddess (Mrsjr mrs3gr) the silence lover goddess
the necropolis protector in western Thebes (6), and this is the first
appearance to her in the tombs of Elephantine- until now- in a
writing attributed to the ends of the Nineteen dynasty where
divine determinative disappear and only remain determinative
to the man put his hand over his mouth a silence sign -
(Wb, vol2, p104)

-we can see the letter which never used in any name writing
of these gods
- The disappearance of the letter r notes after the sign
gr
*These differences in Mertsjr name may attribute to two things
the first that the writer made a mistake in writing because it is

the Balance itself. The hall in which Mᶜt sat in double form to hear the
"confession" of the dead is often depicted in connection with the cxxvth Chapter of
the Book of the Dead.(Buge,1904,vol2,p 416-18)

6- Meret-seger :The snake headed goddess of solitude, her name means “she who loves
silence.” She was associated with osiris god of the dead. Meret-Seger, the serpent whose
domain was the Theban desert, was said to be the incarnation and guardian of the peaks
above the village of the workers who built the royal tombs in the valley of the king . The
workers in the village of Deir el Medina were devoted to Meret-Seger and took her as their
patron deity. Where she appears on the walls of the tombs of Ramses VI and Ramses IX,
she wears the Amntet headdress, signifying the “west”—a feather resting on a standard. A
votive stele dedicated to Meret-Seger, now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, calls
her Lady of Heaven and Mistress of the Two Lands and portrays her as being both sweet
and ferocious. All on earth are warned to “Beware of the Peak of the West,” the name by
which she was known .(Remler,2010,p120-21)

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unusual to write that name or that it was written as spoken in the

local dialect

By reviewing the report text, we find the sign in the second

line has been reversed from the original text
- We also find in Cecil text in second line she write the
sign the bird with short legs instead of the sign
3-The three right side lines:

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Translations:

…..the lord Osiris the superintendent of the priests of Khnum

Kakm the justified one
Offerings….son …….cold water, wine, milk to the soul of the
Superinten -dent of the priests of Khnum Kakm the justified one
Offerings Ḥatḥor…..may he given a beautiful coffin (7) from the
two lands to the Soul of the superintendent of the priests of
Khnum Kak
3-The passage:
It begins at the west end of the north wall of the hall (in the plan
above). And has a rectangular entry with 1.40 m height and1.20

7 - The coffin was one of the basics of funerary belief in ancient Egypt it simply
expresses the desire of that lying in it to live eternal life as the preservation of the
body was a condition of --immortality has carried the Egyptian texts since the
period of the old Kingdom of many names for such funerary purpose called( Ḳrsw)
(Wb V p65-13-14), the determinative of Ḳrsw makes it clear that the most common
form in the old kingdom was the box with the convex cover and which has four
columns on its corners also used another word for the coffin ḏrw.t ,and As the
coffin expresses the owner desire to eternity it named (nb cnḫ )(Wb. 1-228.14)
that name was more common in the Old Kingdom, where we see in the text,
"Weni" from Mry ra time .in the New Kingdom the name ḏb3t (Wb V., 561,9-10)
from the papyri 1 graves thefts was a word to the stone sarcophagus (Winlock,
1924, pp239 n.2, p260) the same word used in reference Mummy sarcophagus in
the New Kingdom. The word mnt cnḫ (wb.II, 63,1) is believed to have been used
in the Ramses period

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m width It descends for 7.00 m downwards, heading towards the

main burial chamber. The height of the passage at its beginning
beginnin
is about 1.90 m and 2.40 m at the middle 2.60 m at the end.
The passage is full of cracks in the ceiling and sides, which have
been refilled and restored, but it's clear that they reappeared again
and need more restoration (fig .22)

(fig .22)
4-The first burial chamber:
Half meter before the end of the passage to the right an entrance
leads to the first burial chamber and the width of its entrance 1.50
m and its height 1.18 m and a room almost rectangular side free
of decoration its side length, southern
hern 6.60 m, northern7.00m,
eastern5.00m and western5.67 m carries the ceiling four
rectangular -shaped
shaped columns 100x80 cm in the middle of the
room floor a rectangular burial pit with length 3.10m, an width
1.90 m with two inner sides edge.(fig.23)
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(fig.23)
5-The second burial chamber:
Then the final chamber, or the sarcophagus chamber which is
smaller than the previous one free of decoration. The New
kingdom mummy sarcophagus lies in the middle of the chamber
in a ramp connected to the passage. The sarcophagus dimensions
2.90m length and 1.80m width and height of 00.30m, the lower
part (box) made of black granite, while the cover of white
limestone the sarcophagus cover broken into pieces and in need
to restoration. While the ramp dimensions length 2.90 m width
1.80 m the chamber itself trapezoidal shape of a maximum width
of 3.10m from the south wall and the north wall of 2.80, while
the western wall length of 3.80 m, while the eastern wall 4.00m
(fig.24)

Fig24
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Finally as we mentioned earlier, the tomb is very unique in the

case of a Qubet-el Hawa area in terms of the location, direction
and decoration and design that distinguishes causes us to believe
that there are two possibilities
-The first is that Kakm was not originally from Elephantine and
that he was Theban priest served in the Temple of Khnum and
remained until he died in Elephantine and the buried in the same
way in which it was supposed to buried in Thebes
-Secondly, it was Elephantine and the spent a part of his life in
Thebes and wanted to be buried like the nobles in the Thebes
West Mountain imitating, what was common at that time from
motifs and inscriptions
Finally, we hope that the tomb received more care and attention
to repaired and cleaned, where the sand has covered most of the
open court and remainder of the inscriptions either on the open
court or in the hall are exposed to many cracks and they will fall
soon ,and the interior rooms need more repairs also should be
reassemble the parts sarcophagus broken cover and restored,
despite the presence of searchlights, electrical outlets and for
some reason we do not know it's too dark there and the need for
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‫ﻣﻘﺑرة ﻛﺎﻛم‬
‫د‪.‬إﯾﻧﺎس ﻣﺻطﻔﻰ‬
‫اﻟﻣﻠﺧص‪:‬‬
‫ﺗﻘﻊ ھذه اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة أﺳﻔل ﺗل ﻗﺑﺔ اﻟﮭوا إﻟﻰ اﻟﺷﻣﺎل اﻟﻐرﺑﻲ وﻗد أﻛﺗﺷﻔﺗﮭﺎ اﻟﻠﯾدى ﺳﯾﺳﯾل‬
‫ﻋﺎم ‪ ١٩٠١‬و ﻗدﻣت ﺗﻘرﯾر ﺣﻔﺎﺋر ﻣوﺟز ﻋﻧﮭﺎ‪ .‬واﻟﻼﻓت ﻟﻠﻧظر ھﻧﺎ ھو ﻣوﻗﻊ ھذه‬
‫اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة‪ ،‬ﺣﯾث ﺗﻘﻊ ﺿﻣن ﺻف ﻣن ﻣﻘﺎﺑر اﻟدوﻟﺔ اﻟﻘدﯾﻣﺔ واﻟوﺳطﻰ ﺑﯾﻧﻣﺎ ﻣﻘﺑر ﻛﺎﻛم‬
‫ھﻰ اﻟوﺣﯾدة اﻟﺗﻲ ﯾرﺟﻊ ﺗﺎرﯾﺧﮭﺎ إﻟﻰ ﻋﺻر اﻟدوﻟﺔ اﻟﺣدﯾﺛﺔ‪ ،‬وھذه اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة ﺗرﺟﻊ ﻓﻰ‬
‫اﻷﺻل ﻟﻠدوﻟﺔ اﻟﻘدﯾﻣﺔ ﺛم أﻋﯾد اﺳﺗﺧداﻣﮭﺎ ﻓﻲ ﻋﺻر اﻟدوﻟﺔ اﻟﺣدﯾﺛﺔ ﺑواﺳطﺔ ﻛﺎﻛم ‪ .‬إن‬
‫ﺟﻣﯾﻊ اﻟﻣﻘﺎﺑر اﻷﺧرى ﻓﻲ اﻟﻣﻧطﻘﺔ ﻣداﺧﻠﮭﺎ ﻧﺣو اﻟﺷﻣﺎل ﻓﻲ ﺣﯾن ﻛﺎن ﻣﻘﺑرة ﻛﺎﻛم‬
‫ﻣدﺧﻠﮭﺎ ﻣن اﻟﺟﻧوب ﻓﻲ اﺗﺟﺎه اﻟﻣﻌﺑد ‪ Ḥekqib‬وﺟﺑﺎﻧﺔ ﺧﻧوم ‪،‬إن ﻛﺎﻛم ﻓﻰ اﻟﻧﮭﺎﯾﺔ ھو‬
‫ﻛﺎھن ﺧﻧوم‪.‬‬

‫واﻟﻣﻘﺑرة ﺗﺧص اﻟﻛﺎھن ﻛﺎﻛم )اﻟﺛور اﻷﺳود(‪ ،‬رﺋﯾس ﻛﮭﻧﺔ اﻹﻟﮫ ﺧﻧوم واﻟﻣﺷرف ﻋﻠﻰ‬
‫ﺟﻣﯾﻊ ﻛﮭﻧﺔ اﻟﻔﻧﺗﯾن اﻟذى أﻋﺎد ﺗزﯾﯾﻧﮭﺎ ﻣرة أﺧرى ووﺿﻊ أﻟﻘﺎﺑﮫ واﺳﺗﺧداﻣﮭﺎ‪،‬و اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة‬
‫ﺗﺣﺗوي ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺟﻣوﻋﺔ ﻣن اﻟزﺧﺎرف‪ ،‬اﻟﺗﻲ ﯾﻌود ﺗﺎرﯾﺧﮭﺎ إﻟﻰ ﻋﺻر اﻟدوﻟﺔ اﻟﺣدﯾﺛﺔ‪،‬‬
‫اﻟﺗﻲ ﻧراھﺎ ﻓﻰ ﻣﻘﺎﺑر اﻟﻧﺑﻼء ﻓﻲ اﻷﻗﺻر ﻓﻲ اﻟﻧﻘوش )ﻣرت ﺳﺟر( إﻟﮭﺔ ﺟﺑﺎﻧﺔ طﯾﺑﺔ ﻓﻲ‬
‫ﻣﻠﻣﺢ ﻻﻓت ﻟﻠﻧظر‪ ،‬ﻣﻣﺎ ﯾزﯾد ﻣن اﺣﺗﻣﺎل أن ﻛﺎﻛم ﻗد ﯾﻌﻣل ﻓﻲ طﯾﺑﺔ ﻟﺑﻌض اﻟوﻗت‪ ،‬أو‬
‫أﻧﮫ ﻛﺎن ﻓﻲ اﻷﺻل طﯾﺑﯾﺎ ً ﻓﺿل أن ﯾدﻓن ھﻧﺎ‪.‬‬
‫وﺻف اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة‪:‬‬
‫ﺗﺗﻛون اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة ﻣن ﻓﻧﺎء أﻣﺎﻣﻲ ﻣﻔﺗوح‪ ،‬وﻗﺎﻋﺔ‪ ،‬واﺛﻧﯾن ﻣن ﻏرﻓﺔ اﻟدﻓن وﻋﻠﻰ ﺟﺎﻧﺑﻰ‬
‫ﺑواﺑﺔ اﻟﻔﻧﺎء اﻟﻣﻔﺗوح ﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﯾﻣﯾن ﻓﺗﺣﺗﻰ ﻣﻘﺎﺑر ﻣﻧﻘورة ﻓﻰ اﻟﺻﺧر وﻋﻠﻰ اﻟﯾﺳﺎر ﻓﺗﺣﺔ‬
‫أﺧرى‪ ،‬وﻟﻛن ﻻ ﺷﻲء ﻓﻲ اﻟداﺧل‪ .‬اﻟﻔﻧﺎء اﻟﻣﻔﺗوح ﻣﺳﺗطﯾل ﯾﺣﺗوي ﻋﻠﻰ ﺳﺗﺔ ﻣن‬
‫ﻗواﻋداﻷﻋﻣدة اﻟﺗﻲ ﻛﺎﻧت ﺗﺣﻣل رواﻗﺎ ﺟﺎﻧﺑﯾﺎ ﻣﺳﻘوﻓﺎ ﻓﻰ ﺣﯾن ﺑﻘﻰ ﻣﻧﺗﺻف اﻟﻔﻧﺎء‬
‫ﻣﻔﺗوﺣﺎ ‪.‬أﻣﺎ اﻟﺟدار اﻟﺷﻣﺎﻟﻰ اﻷﻣﺎﻣﻲ واﻟﻣدﺧل إﻟﻰ اﻟﺻﺎﻟﺔ ﻓﻘد ﻗطﻊ ﺟزﺋﯾﺎ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺻﺧر‪،‬‬
‫وﺑﻧﻰ ﻣﻊ اﻟﺣﺟﺎرة‪ ،‬واﻟﺟدار ﻧﮭﺎﯾﺔ ﻗطﻊ ﻓﻲ وﺟﮫ اﻟﺻﺧور‪ .‬أرﺑﻌﺔ أﻋﻣدة ﻣرﺑﻌﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ‬
‫اﻷﻋﻣدة واﻟﺳﻘف ﺑﻘﺎﯾﺎ ﻧﻘوش ﺗﻣﺛل ﺻﺎﺣب اﻟﻣﻘﺑرة ﯾﻠﻰ اﻟﺻﺎﻟﺔ ﻣﻣر ﯾؤدى إﻟﻰ ﻏرﻓﺗﻰ‬
‫دﻓن إﺣداھﻣﺎ ﻻﯾزال ﯾوﺟد ﺑﮭﺎ اﻟﺗﺎﺑوت اﻟذى ﯾرﺟﻊ طرازه إﻟﻰ ﻧﮭﺎﯾﺔ اﻷﺳرة اﻟﺗﺎﺳﻌﺔ‬
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