Tomb of Wah

This article is about the tomb of the Middle Kingdom official. For the tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty butler, see TT22.

The tomb of Wah, also known by its tomb number MMA 1102, is an ancient Egyptian tomb at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna near Luxor, Egypt. Wah was the estate manager for the chancellor Meketre during the late Eleventh or early Twelfth Dynasties of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. He died in his 30s and was buried in a small tomb cut at the entrance of his employer's large rock-cut tomb, TT280. In 1920 Wah's intact burial was discovered during the Metropolitan Museum of Art's re-clearance of TT280's causeway. Most of the contents of the tomb were awarded to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The mummy of Wah was unwrapped in 1940 after X-ray examination in the 1930s revealed his body wore many items of jewellery.

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