Thanks again to Jane for making her lecture notes available. See her website, above, for the full set of notes. Here's a short preview:
Djehuty by Jose Galan
Totally excellent lecture with 203 slides!
Their website http://www.excavacionegipto.com/index.jsp.htm in Spanish but you can use Goggle translate to view it.
I also have previous notes
http://luxor-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/mummfication-museum-lecture-tt11-tt12.html and
http://luxor-news.blogspot.com/2008/07/previous-posts.html (search on TT11)
The Spanish team have been working there 9 seasons at the northern end of the Theban necropolis at Dra Abu Naga. This was a special place in ancient times as it was connected to Karnak, the sun roses between the pylons across the river and set behind Dra Abu Naga. It was also the 1st landing place of the Beautiful feast of the valley, which was Luxor’s most special ancient festival.
The first excavation was done by the Marquis of Northampton with the Egyptologists Newbury and Spiegelberg but this was a very short season back in 1899. In 1909 both Gardiner and Weigall started work trying to protect tombs and around that time a number of photos were taken which are in the Griffiths Institute. The situation in 2002 was not much different from that of 1909 with TT11 only half visible and TT12 and TT399 not visible at all.
The original aim of team was to document the courtyards of the tombs and in fact TT11 has the longest recorded courtyard. The tombs of TT11, TT12, TT399 and Baki are all connected; TT11 is a t-shaped tomb.
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