ABSTRACT
Tomb no. A6 was visited by Lepsius as the only one among the early travellers, but all he copied was the title of the tomb owner: 'overseer of the peasants of the Lord of the Two Lands'. In 1906 Gauthier excavated the east slope of the main hill of Dra Abu el-Naga and he came across the tomb of an 'overseer of the peasants' by the name of Dhoutnufer, called Seshu. According to Gauthier, the tomb consisted of 'a certain number of chambers' cut into the rock, and a shaft measuring, being 10m deep. Two thirds down the shaft were two rooms, one at the south west corner, and the other at the north east corner. The father of Outnufer is mentioned on one set of funerary cones. He was an otherwise unknown scribe called Mesu. A son and a daughter appear on two stelae in Turin which came from the Drovetti collection.
