Reconceiving the tomb in the late Middle Kingdom: the burial of the accountant of the Main Enclosure Neferhotep at Dra Abu el-Naga

In 1860 at Dra Abu al-Naga, Antiquities Service excavators discovered an accounts papyrus from the visit of a 13th dynasty king to Thebes. Mariette published this as Papyrus Boulaq 18 in 1872 with notes on items found with it; most of these items are preserved in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, from which we present here the first illustrated publication of the find-group, assessing differences between objects in the museum and its registers, and the Mariette 1872 edition. As one of few documented late Middle Kingdom tomb-groups to be published, the finds provide a basis for reconsidering burial equipment as an index of dominant conceptions of the tomb, both within the period, and over time from early Middle Kingdom to early New Kingdom.