Cemetery of Deir el-Medina - Hill of Qurnet Murai

Below No. 40 are two tombs of the Ramessid period, Nos. 227 and 278. No. 227 is the Tomb of Amenemonet, a Priest, with funerary scenes (ships carrying the dead man's shrine; women mourners; statues of Amenophis III and Queen Tiy being conveyed to the tomb on sledges; a tomb topped by a pyramid, with a large stela in front, against the background of the desert cliffs). No. 278, the Tomb of Amenomheb, is decorated with religious scenes (the Hathor cow emerging from the hill, etc.); the ceiling has spiral patterns following Cretan models.