In the ENTRANCE, the right thickness of the door shows Shuroy and his wife in a pose of adoration.
CHAMBER 1, LEFT HALF In the upper register, scenes from the Book of Gates show Shuroy and his wife before various deities and guardians of the gates of the netherworld. Near the center of the left wall, the couple face a heavily laden table of offerings. To the right, Ra-Harakhty sits in a kiosk holding an ankh-sign and a wasscepter, facing left toward a standing figure of the goddess Ma’at. The god’s figure is nicely painted, but his arms and legs are disproportionately long and thin, making him appear more a caricature than a formal drawing. In the register below, now mostly destroyed, the couple stand in adoration before various deities and a king and queen. On the left side of the chamber’s rear wall, a large djedpillar is clothed in linen and ribbons above a large hieroglyph meaning “the West.” CHAMBER 1, RIGHT HALF On the right side of the rear wall, there is again a djed-pillar but below it are variouslyshaped loaves of bread and vessels. The front wall and the chamber’s right wall continue the Book of Gates and various genii are shown in the same order as on the left wall.
Representations of bread loaves are nicely drawn. The small pin pricks painted across the bread’s surface are similar to those made by modern Upper Egyptian women when baking at home. They claim that the holes ensure that the loaves bake evenly. In the lower register, Shuroy and his wife are adoring Ma'at and RaHarakhty. The ceiling of this chamber is painted with two different geometric patterns. CHAMBER 2 On the door thicknesses leading into the second chamber, two badly destroyed figures of Shuroy (on the right) and his wife (on the left) were drawn in red ink only.
Four registers cover the long front wall to the right of the door. At the top, twenty-two male offering bearers march forward, nineteen of them carrying large, sloppily painted boxes on their heads, three others with bundles of vegetables. In the second register, Shuroy and male relatives approach a garden. There is a small collection of crudelydrawn trees at the right and servants sit beneath them, their head in their hands as if sleeping. In the third register, a funeral procession marches forward with servants bearing foodstuffs, others squatting before baskets of vegetables and, at right, men carrying a yoke on their shoulders to which boxes are attached. A cow walks to the right. In the bottom register, the procession continues. Young, naked girls dance beside their mothers in the center of the register, their hands in the air, knees bent as if jumping or skipping. Male bearers walk toward the mummy of Shuroy, which stands at the right end of the wall. Mourning women kneel at his feet, wailing and pouring dirt on their heads.before a figure of Hathor, shown as a cow with an elaborate plumed headdress emerging from a mountain.
Inside the central niche in the rear wall, little is preserved except on the right wall where a figure of a squatting man is followed by Shuroy offering braziers, then by his wife and an unidentified male.To the right of the niche, Thoth leads Shuroy before a seated figure of Osiris, accompanied by Isis and Nephthys. Below, a scene of libation has almost
completely disappeared. The side wall and the left side of the front wall are almost completely gone. Traces can be seen of offering bearers standing before Shuroy and his wife at a banquet scene. The scene continues in the lower register. The ceiling of the second chamber was decorated with a light yellow and white checkerboard pattern and a series of red and yellow circles arranged in large squares.
From" The Illustrated Guide to Luxor" by kent R.Weeks ,published by the American University in Cairo Press. Copyright © 2005 White Star S.p.a