El-Daba

El-Daba (east bank of the Nile). North of the railroad station, near some large quarries in the hills of the Eastern Desert, are the tombs of Qasr el-Sayyad (ancient Chenoboscion), belonging to Princes of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt under the Sixth Dynasty. The Tomb of Tjawit consists of two chambers, the walls between which have almost completely disappeared; the barrel vaulted roof, hewn from the rock, has survived intact. The tomb has much damaged reliefs (boats, men bearing offerings, etc.). To the south is the Tomb of Idu, consisting of a single transverse chamber. Here, too, little is left of the inscriptions and reliefs (the dead man going after wildfowl, offering scenes, etc.). Inscriptions in the tomb chambers show that they were occupied by monks during the Early Christian period.