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The wb3 nswt ‘royal wb3’ Paatenemheb™® is known from his tomb chapel and a wooden stick located in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden (AMT 1-35, AP 52, AH 1400). His tomb, to which the chapel once belonged, was situated in the necropolis in Saqqara, however, it has not been found. Nevertheless, based on the fact that it shows a close parallel in its stylistic characteristics and similarities to the tombs of Maya and Horemheb, a possible location in the area around these tombs is conceivable. The analogy of the decoration allows us to date Paatenemheb to the post-Amarna period, most likely under the reign of Horemheb.* The location of his tomb also denotes that he most probably carried out his official duties in the royal palace in Memphis. The plan of the tomb of Paatenemheb must have been similar to that of the tombs of his contemporaries, where the chapel was the central one between two side chapels at the western end of a peristyle court. Two papyrus-formed columns, and elements of the portico in front of the chapel, can still be seen together with the chapel in the museum, each of them holding three offering formulae. The walls of the chapel, according to its purpose as the main cult place of the tomb, give place almost exclusively to offering scenes. In addition, on the right side wall, musicians are represented before the sitting figures of the owner and his wife, and their two daughters squatting under their seats, with part of the well-known Song of the harper above them.* On the wall left of the entrance, scenes connected to death and the netherworld are depicted: the fields of Iaru, the owner and his wife ploughing, combined with Chapter 110 of the Book of the Dead. A large stele occupies the centre of the rear wall. It has a cavetto cornice on the top, the frame contains two rows of htp-dj-nswt formulae, and the central field is divided into two registers. In the upper register, Paatenemheb and his wife adore Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and the Horus-sons, in the lower register, a man named Kasa and a woman present an offering to the owner and his wife. Kasa also appears in another offering scene elsewhere in the chapel, he is designated as sdm n pr-°3 ‘servant of the palace’, but his relationship with the owner is not defined. The figure of Paatenemheb on the stele is decorated with ® Gessler-Lohr discussed the possibility in detail that Paatenemheb and his contemporary, Paraemheb might or might not have been the same person who changed his name at a certain point of his life, but based on their titles and known relatives, she concluded quite convincingly that they were two different persons. Gessler-Löhr, 1989, 29-31. 58 Schneider — Raven, 1981, 95; Mälek, 1985, 46; Gessler-Löhr, 1989, 31; Hoffmann, 2004, 100; GesslerLöhr, 2012, 158, with n. 35, and 188, with n. 170. 54 Malek suggests, however, based on the presence of the vignette of the Book of the Dead, Chapter 110 on the southern part of the eastern wall, that the tomb was one of the ‘compact type’ tombs with only one room on the western end. Malek, 1985, 46, n. 18. Simpson, 2003’, 332-333. 58