D21a HPA Burials in TT320 |
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Burial of Pinodjem II
HPA Pinodjem (paj-nedjem) II , son of HPA "King" Menkheperre and Isetemkhebjt C, grandson of Khakheperre Pinodjem I ascended to the pontificate following the death of his elder brother, HPA Smendes II, in ca. 993 BCE. He died ca. 970 BCE in the tenth year of the Tanite king Siamun and was buried alongside his favorite wife, Nesjkhonsu, in TT320. These are the only two burials in the Royal Cachette proven to be primary. Pinodjem's wives were Isetemkhebjt D, daughter of HPA Menkheperre and Isetemkhebjt C (thus, his sister) and Nesjkhonsu, daughter of his brother, HPA Smendes II, (thus, his niece). His children included HPA Psusennes III, Djedkhonsjuefankh B, and Nesjtanebetisheru whose remains were found in the cachette.
Pinodjem was buried in his own two coffins with his own mummy-cover, all of which are pictured in old photographs from the Catalogue Général below.
His four canopic jars were also found, as were two leather plaques from the breast of his mummy. Mummy-cloth fragments and a leather ornament were found in the coffin of Nesjkhonsu.
Niwinski, in 21st Dynasty Coffins p.115 no.65 classes the coffins as: outer lid, IIc; inner lid, IVb, mummy-cover, IIIa and notes gilding.
See coffins and mummy below
Scroll right for second lid
Sides of outer coffin (scroll right)
Sides of inner coffin (scroll right)
Mummy Cover
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Mummy of Pinodjem II
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