bulletin NUMBER 203 – FALL 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2011–2012 to Amun-Ra-horakhty, and a false door. he passage from the transverse hall to the pillared hall was decorated with scenes of Djehuty’s funeral procession, as well as those of ofering- bringers and musicians. Unfortunately, the current degraded state of the tomb’s pillared hall makes it impossible to say whether or not it was decorated in antiquity 1 (Fig. 2). From at least the early twentieth century until today, the only way to enter TT 110 was through a break in an adjacent tomb, TT 42, as its forecourt was completely illed with debris. It was through this break that Norman Weigall irst entered in 1909, followed by Norman de Garis Davies, who partially published its texts and wall scenes in 1932. 2 Davies’ account of TT 110 notes that its pillared hall, unlike the rest of the tomb, was still illed with debris during his visit. By the time ARCE began its archaeological work in late 2012, this debris had taken the ARCE’s Excavation of the Tomb of Djehuty (TT 110) ANDREW BEDNARSKI In 2012 the American Research Center in Egypt, with the support of USAID, began a series of excavations in heban Tomb 110. hese excavations are one aspect of ARCE’s initiative to open the tomb to visitors on behalf of the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), and form part of ARCE’s larger APS program of work in Luxor. he APS project is directed by John Shearman, with Andrew Bednarski as its archaeological ield director, and Ruth Hatield, Ali Henawy, Shimma Montaser, Yasser Mahmoud, and El Sayed Mamdouh working as project archaeologists within the tomb. Mohamed Abdel Basset, assisted by Essam Nagy, worked as surveyors. his article explains the excavations to date. TT 110 is found on Luxor’s West Bank, on the border between Sheikh Abd el Qurna and El Khokha (Fig. 1). It was built for a man named Djehuty, who held the position of Royal Butler under both Hatshepsut (1473-1458 BC) and Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 BC). Its original entrance was through a forecourt to the north, which led into a transverse hall. his hall was decorated with carved and painted scenes, notably depictions of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III to either side of the entrance to the tomb’s inner passage, an autobiographical stela, a stela form of two large mounds, divided by a narrow walkway that led from the break into TT 42 through to TT 110’s passage. hese mounds were the result of manmade efort, and were held in place by two retaining walls on either side of the narrow walkway. In order to better access the tomb’s passage and transverse hall from TT 42, and in order to facilitate the cleaning and conservation work planned for TT 110, it was irst necessary to excavate the debris choking the pillared hall. his was done over the course of December 2012, under the supervision of contract archaeologist Ruth Hatield, and with the assistance of ARCE archaeologist Ali Henawy (Fig. 3). hree hundred and forty-one objects were recovered from this excavation, with the mounds comprising fragments from the walls of TT 110 (Fig. 4), ceiling fragments, a large number of funerary objects, a plethora of human mummy remains (Fig. 5), modern paper, continued on page 3 Fragment of a cartonnage mummy mask. Image by Abd-Allah Sabry and courtesy of ARCE.