Tomb of an unknown official (NN) (found in 2010)
This tomb is situated to the south of the tombs of Meryneith and Ptahemwia. Its walls have the same orientation as those of its two neighbours, it is built with the same format of mud-bricks, and its stratigraphy (with a floor lying 0.2 m lower than that of Ptahemwia) indicates that is must have been constructed before the Ramesside Period. Together, these characteristics suggest that the newly-found tomb against belonged to a contemporary of Akhenaten or Tutankhamun. Several architectural features of the tomb's superstructure appear to confirm this suggestion.
However, as soon as the tomb emerged from the sand, it was soon realized that it was never finished. This means that there are no wall-reliefs or inscriptions to corroborate the date proposed here. Accordingly, there has been some discussion about this issue, and some people have asserted that it was rather built in the transitional period between the post-Amarna time and the early Ramessides. Hopefully, this question can be answered when we manage to excavate the subterranean burial complex, a job that was planned for the season 2011 but had to be postponed due to the political troubles in Egypt. For the moment we can only refer to this monument as the tomb of an unknown official (NN).
