Maiherpri is noble which is buried in the Vallée of the Kings (fall KV36). It is probably contemporary of the Pharaon Thoutmôsis {{IV}}.

Its name means “the lion of the battle field”, and of the weapons found in its tomb indicate that he was a warrior.

He is deceased young person, approximately twenty years, and the fact that he is buried in a tomb of the valley of the kings, made say to Gaston Maspero which he was to be a son of Thoutmôsis {{IV}} or of Amenhotep {{III}} and of a concubine Nubie, because its mummy, found in an exceptional state of conservation, had a skin of brown dark. Its death mask is decorated in the way characteristic of the end of.

Maiherpri carried important titles, like “Wire of the kȝp ” - title used usually to appoint a prince royal, and “carrying range of the king”.

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Description of the tomb of Maiherpri