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Madeleine and Marnie recreate a segment of the original tomb wall

How We are Constructing Senneferi’s Tomb
Our first task was deciding which of the walls in the classroom we would prefer to transform into the shrine of the tomb of Senneferi. After a short discussion we decided that the Door Wall (which became wall 13 of the actual tomb) would be the best wall to do considering our artistic talents and papering skills. The next problem was deciding what would go on the majority of the wall, seeing that there was only a section 2.5m x 0.5 m remaining on wall 13 of TT99.

From the Internet site on Senneferi, we gathered that the wall should contain some sort of funerary procession. We thought this would face towards either a god or the deceased himself. With the help of Ms Angelo (and Porter and Moss) it was decided that we would display a procession of men all facing to the right heading towards the deceased - Senneferi, who would be standing before an offering table giving offerings to Osiris in a shrine. Above the entire scene following the top of the wall we also would display a kheker frieze.

After drawing and painting the frieze we began drawing the Osiris shrine down the right hand side of the wall. Unfortunately when we received notes kindly sent by Nigel Strudwick it was decided that this was an unlikely scene here. After "throwing a fit and going insane" we exchanged the relief of Senneferi for one of the Western Goddess and rearranged a few of the registers and yet again asked for Nigel’s advice. He responded by saying that the registers were fine (given that we didn’t really know what was on there exactly!) But the Osiris shrine was almost entirely wrong.

After "more cursing and throwing chairs and tables" around the room we had to re paper the wall in the spot where we had drawn the shrine and draw in the Western Goddess.Seeing that we only had a small fragment remaining of the original wall we had to gather scenes from different tombs from around the time of the creation of this tomb (the reign of Thutmose III).

Most of the information was gathered from Porter and Moss Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 1: Private Tombs, Griffith Institute, 1970. From this information we had a table drawn up, comparing these to the information from Nigel’s suggestions and what we thought would bring a perfect balance to the room and our wall.         Marnie

TT99: SENNEFERI: INNER ROOM/SHRINE WALL 13