The Celestial Diagram consisted of a northern and a southern panel which depicted circumpolar constellations in the form of discs each divided into 24 sections suggesting a 24-hour time period, lunar cycles, and sacred deities of Egypt. The ceiling and wall carvings are particularly well preserved as due to the Tarawan chalk into which they were carved. chamber known as Chamber A yielded the two panels of what is now referred to as the Egyptian Celestial Diagram. Whether this was done to deliberately place his tomb in the precincts of Hatshepsut's temple or to reach better quality sandstone is not known. This is 90m long and gives access to three successive chambers under the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. The unfinished tomb is entered via a steep descending stairway starting in a quarry. The tomb of Senemut was discovered during the 1925–1927 excavations directed by Herbert Winlock for the Egyptian Expedition The tomb and the ceiling decorations date back to the XVIII Dynasty of ancient Egypt (circa 1479–1458 BCE). 353), located at the site of Deir el-Bahri, discovered in Thebes, Upper Egypt. Celestial diagram in ancient Egyptian tomb Top and bottom portions Īstronomical ceiling decoration in its earliest form can be traced to the Tomb of Senenmut
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