Secondary Epigraphy and Members of the Funerary Cult Staff. The Graffito of the Dining-Hall Administrator (ḫrp-sḥ) Kai-hersetef in Tomb Hammamyia A2 (with Graffiti from Meir) (original) (raw)

Graffiti bear witness to actions that follow one another over time and are linked to one another, but which appear within the unified framework of the iconotextual space constituted by the decoration of Egypt’s private funerary chapels. This is so for the document we present in this article, which was collected as part of the secondary epigraphy survey we have been conducting in Middle Egypt in private necropolises since 2017.1 During the 2023 season, we were authorised to visit the tombs of El-Hammamyia and Qoseir el-Amarna,2 a provincial necropolis in the 10th nome of Upper Egypt, whose tombs date mainly from the 5th dynasty. We have recorded only one document, which is the subject of this ar ticle.