ABSTRACT
The substantial fragments of the tomb survive in the Bankes collection at Kingston Lacy, and the tomb is named after this collector, the name and the title of the original owner remaining unknown. Most of the fragments are included in the bibliography of Porter & Moss but without provenance, and the publication of some of them by Nina de Garis Davies implies that they were not related, although they are all given an Eighteenth dynasty date. Porter & Moss assign the date of the Nineteenth dynasty to one of the fragments. In 1830 Bankes published an account in English of the life of his interpretor, Giovanni Finati, an Italian who rendered his assistance to many of the Europeans travelling in Egypt in those days. According to Belzoni the tomb had a 'portico and subterraneous cavity where the mummies are', a decorated chamber and a shaft. He compared it to the tomb he described immediately before which had two decorated chambers.
