KV15

The tomb runs along a northwest-to-southeast axis. A short entry corridor is followed by three corridor segments, which end in a well room that lacks a well, as the well was never dug. This connects with a four-pillared hall and another stretch of corridor that was converted into a burial chamber.

The walls and ceiling of the burial chamber were plastered and painted with Anubis jackals and two rows of deities, representing the followers of Ra and Osiris, above a lower row of mummy-like figures. The winged goddess Nut appears along the length of the ceiling, and what may be a representation of the Ba of Ra is painted above her head. The paintings are conventional depictions drawn from the Litany of Re, the Amduat and the Book of Gates. Wall paintings in the well room are more unusual and show the king in shrines in a number of different manifestations, for instance on the back of a panther or on a papyrus skiff. The objects shown in the paintings are reflected in the finds made in the tomb of Tutankhamun. In places the tomb preserves hastily drawn artists' concepts for future decoration.

Relatively little is known about the history of the tomb. Seti II was buried there, but he may originally have been buried with his wife Tausert in her tomb, KV14, and subsequently moved to the hastily finished but mostly unfinished KV15, perhaps by the later pharaoh Setnakhte, who took over KV14 for his own tomb. Seti's name appears to have been carved, erased and then re-carved. The usurper Amenmesse was likely responsible for the erasures, while Tausert or Seti II's agents may have had the name restored. Seti's mummy was later moved to the mummy cache in tomb KV35, and only the lid of his sarcophagus remains in KV15.

Seti II had only 4 years to complete his royal tomb, since he lost control of Thebes and Upper Egypt to Amenmesse sometime between his 2nd and 5th regnal year, and he is unattested in Upper Egypt during this time. His reign lasted less than 6 regnal years. This accounts for the unfinished state of the tomb.