The tomb of Ty at Saqqara consists of an entrance hall with depictions of peasants and Ty with birds, leading to an open court with 12 pillars and damaged scenes of slaughtering and Ty being followed. Beyond is a corridor with well-preserved traditional offering scenes and depictions of sailing and Ty in a papyrus boat. Off the corridor are small rooms including an offering room with more offering scenes and a funerary chamber decorated with daily life scenes and pillars bearing Ty's names.
The tomb of Ty at Saqqara consists of an entrance hall with depictions of peasants and Ty with birds, leading to an open court with 12 pillars and damaged scenes of slaughtering and Ty being followed. Beyond is a corridor with well-preserved traditional offering scenes and depictions of sailing and Ty in a papyrus boat. Off the corridor are small rooms including an offering room with more offering scenes and a funerary chamber decorated with daily life scenes and pillars bearing Ty's names.
The tomb of Ty at Saqqara consists of an entrance hall with depictions of peasants and Ty with birds, leading to an open court with 12 pillars and damaged scenes of slaughtering and Ty being followed. Beyond is a corridor with well-preserved traditional offering scenes and depictions of sailing and Ty in a papyrus boat. Off the corridor are small rooms including an offering room with more offering scenes and a funerary chamber decorated with daily life scenes and pillars bearing Ty's names.
The tomb of Ty at Saqqara consists of an entrance hall with depictions of peasants and Ty with birds, leading to an open court with 12 pillars and damaged scenes of slaughtering and Ty being followed. Beyond is a corridor with well-preserved traditional offering scenes and depictions of sailing and Ty in a papyrus boat. Off the corridor are small rooms including an offering room with more offering scenes and a funerary chamber decorated with daily life scenes and pillars bearing Ty's names.
Ty was the overseer of the pyramid and the funerary
temple of Neferirkare and Neuserre from the fifth dynasty, he was married to a princess known as neferhtps. His tomb is found in saqqara, it consists of an entrance followed by two pillars. The entrance leads toan open court contains 12 pillars. The court leads to a long passage and a staircase that leads to an offering chamber. Then we are in the funerary chamber which contains a scene for an offering table having the shape of htp sign and also a scene for a false door. This scenes in this tomb runs as follows:
The entrance {1}:
Scene (a): Depicts some peasents representing their irllages belonging to Ty and carrying food and walking in a procession following Ty. Scene (b): Shows Ty with his son and some birds fed infront of them.
The open court {2}:
One of the 12 pillars found in the open court still carries the figure of Ty, but unfortunately the rest don’t contain any scenes. Most of the scenes in the open court are badly damaged because of the sun rays. Scene (c): Shows a scene far slaughtering of an ox. Scene (d): Shows Ty placed on a carrying chain followed by some of his servants or attendants as well as fan bears also we can see one of his servants leading the Egyptian hound and the monkey. Scene (e): Represents Ty and his wife inspecting the force feeding of gees, also Ty is shown holding a stick, also there is another scene representing a man while fanning the fire beneath copper pot. Scene (f): Represents Ty receiving accounts from his officials (dmdt). Scene (g): Represents Ty while walking out of the tomb and is shown as similar figures each figure is wearing different costume to indicate his various administrative function.
The corridor {4}:
The first half of the corridor was decorated with scenes in very good condition, they usually represent the traditional offering scenes in all registers. Scene (h): Depicts a scene for slaughtering an ox in the bottom register. The middle register is a scene representing transportation of a statue on sledges The upper part is a register is a scene for a seated statue of a deceased. Scene (I): Shows a scene for sailing vessels مراكب مبحرة. Scene (j): Above the door Ty and his wife are shown an a papyrus boat coming out from the marshes. Scene (k): A scene representing Ty and his wife seated at his foot while being entertained by some musicians and singers.
The offering rooms {5}:
On the right hand side of the corridor there is a small
entrance which leads to the offering room better known as store-rooms. The walls of this room are covered by offering scenes (l). On the rear wall scene (m). a scene representing baking, brewing (making beer) while the scribe making some notes, the text gives us 16 types of bread, four types of beer and six types of wine. Scene (n): The corridor leads us to the final room known as the funerary chamber {6} or the sacrificial chamber which has two pillars decorated in imitation of red granite. They also bear the names and titles of Ty.
The north wall is decorated with daily-life scenes
representing boats, games, laden vessels مراكب محملةand agricultural scenes as well as cattle crossing a small calf. In the southern wall there are three slits through whivh the statue of the deceased can be seen in the serdab. From either side of the serdab is a scene representing men burning incense. The original statue is now in the Cairo museum while the present statue is a bust of lime stone.
