TRANSVERSE HALL, SOUTH WALL

The decor is relatively symmetrical, centered upon the outline of a stele that has not received its preparatory coat. We clearly see on the image that representations of Huy were repainted after being effaced (the gray background) and an attempt to cut out the head of the god took place after the 60s (compare with ).

1) - The "lintel"

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This is divided into two parts by the raised symbol of the West sign on a stand ().

a) - On the right

Houy salue "Osiris, Lord of the West" and pours a libation with a "hes"-vase (a very archaic term that should be replaced by "senbet") on a heap of food (bread, meat, fruit and vegetables) piled on a table while reciting a traditional offering formula "… for the Ka of the Osiris [Huy]".
Osiris, wearing his Atef crown, sits on a cubic throne decorated with the sem-tawy emblem. Osiris is silent as always.

b) - On the left

Same scene, this time with Anubis.

2) - The door "jambs"

Each of these is divided into two registers. In the upper register, the deceased sitting on a small wooden stool now in the process of "partaking of all good things before Osiris, Lord of the West" ().

In the lower register, he sits on a chair at a table upon which are placed loaves of bread (represented in the old way) (), with the caption: "Sitting in the company of Osiris and Anubis the lord of Rosetau".

TRANSVERSE HALL, NORTH WALL

A large painted stele was intended to occupy all the central part of the wall, but the mouna has not even received its preparatory whitewash. Each side of the wall is divided into five registers, more or less preserved. A niche (or tunnel) was dug at the bottom of the wall, but was soon abandoned ().
Each of the scenes shows a ritual gesture made before Huy by a lector priest wearing a leopard skin.
In both scenes of the upper register, Huy is represented as a noble and blessed deceased (hiéroglyphs Gardiner A52 and A51  ; in the others he is shown in the costume of a living person, carrying either a sekhem sceptre or a was sceptre

Scene 1 () : "giving the Ka to its lord Huy". Huy is shown dressed in a white shroud, and squatting on a platform. The priest kneels before him and shows him the hieroglyphic sign of Ka. This scene is very rare.
Scene 2 () : "giving the green paint and kohl" (mascara and eye liner, both cosmetic and protective).
Scene 3 () : "giving God’s ointment"
Scene 4 () : "making purifications with bowls of water".
Scene 5 () : "giving white clothing".
Scene 6 () : "giving gifts of fruit (?) ".
Scene 7 () : "giving bread and beer".
Scene 8 (a quasiment disparu) : "giving clthing".

BORDERS AND CEILING

1) - Borders

1) Above all the walls of the transverse room runs a frieze of 13.5 cm. It is made up of blooming or closed lotus flowers facing downwards.
Above, there is a white band with a black line and a red one. At times it adjoins a white and black pattern "in chains"; below, there is the usual pattern formed from multicolored rectangles ().

2) - Ceilings

1) They are beautiful and extraordinarily well preserved beyond what they should be… they are partitioned with yellow bands (imitating wood) bearing prayers in blue hieroglyphs. These bands divide up the ceiling into boxes painted in various patterns.

a) - Bands

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Band A : "1) An offering which the King gives to Amon-Re, King of the Gods, (to) Onnophris and (to) the Horuses who are in Wawat, that they may give their favour consisting of existence upon earth, a long life engaged in administration for the King, joy for the duration of life, and the end of (all) this in goodly burial after old age on the west of Thebes, to the soul of the King’s son of Kush, the overseer of the southern lands, the fan bearer to the right of the King, the true scribe of the King, beloved of him, the overseer of the southern lands…[Huy]".

Band B : "he King’s son of Kush, the fan-bearer to the right of the King, the overseer of cattle of Amon, Huy, justified. He says Homage to you O Lord of eternity, ruling on earth forever, at the head of the westerners, and (you) goddesses who are in the necropolis. Behold I am come to you, pure and censed, powerful and with soul (Ba) [Give you?] your water, myrrh, incense…everything pleasant and sweet. Give you… [to].. [Huy], justified".

Band C : "An offering which the king gives to Osiris at the head of the westerners, the great god who is in Abydos and (to) the gods lords of the sacred land who accompany Onnophris that they may give invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and geese, cloth and alabaster, incense and oil, all vegetables and plants, all things pleasant and sweet, and all that comes forth upon the altar of the lord of the universe; to breathe the air that comes forth from Nun; to receive the offerings that have come forth upon their altars: to become a living soul Then shall he obtain possession of bread and beer, the air and the water which are given to him in the course of every day…"

Band D : ".. [bull] of the West, Amon the lord of Karnak, who illuminates the two lands with his beauty; that he may give goodly venerable age before the King, and to be buried in the tomb he made by favour of the good god. To the soul of the King’s son of Kush, the fan-bearer to the right of the King, Huy".

Band E : "An offering which the king gives to Osiris at the head of the West, and to Anubis at the head of the gods, lords of the Necropolis: that they may give to breathe air with myrrh and incense, libation and wine at both day-seasons; to receive offerings that have come forth in the presence on the altars of the lords of eternity. May you receive offerings through Ptah’s gift (to) you, clean bread upon the altar May your soul live and your muscle be firm. May your sight be clear in the way of darkness. Hapi (the Nile flood) may he give you water. Nepri (the corn-god) may he give you beer. T the soul of the King’s son of Kush, the overseer of the southern countries, the fan-bearer to the right of the King, the King’s scribe, Huy, justified".

Band F : "Spell for breathing the air and for obtaining water in the necropolis, by the King’s son of Kush, Huy, justified. He says: O Hapi, the great one of heaven, in this your name of your nostril (sic!). It is I who settled upon this place which is in the midst of Wenu (Hermopolis Magna). I have guarded the egg of this great cackler. If it is made to flourish, I am made to flourish. If it lives, I live… To the soul of the prince [dignitary] of the first times, noble in front of the common folk, the King’s son of Kush, the overseer of the southern lands, the fan bearer to the right of the King, the overseer of the cattle of (/) Amon., . Huy, the justified".

Band G : "An offering which the king gives to Osiris at the head of the West, Anubis Lord of Rosetau, the gods lords of the west and the goddesses who are in the necropolis; that they may give glory in heaven with Re, power on earth with Geb, to go in and out from Rosetau, [to receive] invocation-offerings, libations, wine, milk, all plants and all flowers, to drink from the lip of the altar, to receive offerings of the bread and beer that belongs to (?) the ruler of the Thinite nome, Osiris, the king of eternity. To the soul of the King’s son of Kush, the overseer of the southern lands, the fan-bearer to the right of the King, … one who says everything and it is done for him, the real scribe of the King, beloved of him, Huy, the justified".

b) - The motifs of the ceiling boxes

To see these, look at all the pictures below.

North wing: , , .

South wing: , .

A particularly original pattern must be reported, it occupies both boxes in the middle part of the transversal room, separated by the band D. It is made of yellow swirls around types of radiating blossoms. In the interstices, on a white background, Huy’s titles are found written in columns ().

PASSAGE TO THE COLUMNED HALL

This passage about 2m long has lost nearly all its decor ().
On the left (south) (, ) was a representation of Osiris to whom the deceased addressed a prayer, as well as to Ptah.
On the right (north) () there is almost nothing remaining. A red structure has been reported but I don’t know its nature ().

THE COLUMNED HALL

This is a room of 5.80m square section with four roughly square pillars. The various surfaces were flattened and covered with mouna, but there is no decoration (). As in the Amarna tombs, the atmosphere is dark and somewhat claustrophobic. A burial shaft leading to an underground vault appears in the ground near the north wall ().
At the back of the room, the west wall has a niche incompletely roughed out before which were replaced the remains of a black granite statue discovered in the chapel (, ).

The underground network

The cavities and underground galleries beneath the tomb are so pervasive in the chapel that Davies had to support ceilings - particularly in the transverse wing - lest they collapse. Almost all postdate, Huy, testifying to reuse of the grave. The only original shaft appears to be that in the northern part of the columned hall: narrow and shallow, it overlooks a very low and unfinished room.

THE FINDS

Neither the mummy nor the grave goods of Huy have been found. In a pit, located close to the tomb, was found the fragment of a statue with his name () carrying a prayer to Ra which contains the word Aton: "contemplating the disk (Aton) throughout the day".
Furthermore, a small stele offered as a votive offering was found in the Karnak cache; dedicated to Amun, it says to the king: "Come to me my lord Nebkheperure (Tutankhamun) because I have seen the darkness that you have generated Bring clarity to me, that I may see you and I will proclaim your omnipotence to the fish of the river and the birds of the sky […]". Interpretations differ on such texts that appeared in the time of Amenhotep III: an image of real blindness which translates as a ‘blindness’ of the mind, or a reference to a solar eclipse that occurred on the site of El-Amarna in year 9 of the reign of Akhenaten? Gradually, this type of formula will become a means of expressing individual guilt, especially amongst the workers in the royal necropolis at Deir el Medina. In the case of Huy, you can really wonder about the reasons that prompted him to make this monument: was there anything to be forgiven? Moreover, archaeologists have found at Faras (seat of the Vice-royalty at the time) a lintel fragment of a building dedicated to Huy on which the name of the Viceroy was erased, while that of Tutankhamun was intact.

If one brings all the evidence together and the erasure of Huy in his chapel, a hypothesis of banishment may be considered, before a return to favour, perhaps posthumously.