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A typical false door to an Egyptian tomb. The deceased is shown above the central niche in front of a table of offerings, and inscriptions listing offerings for the deceased are carved along the side panels. Louvre Museum. A false door, or recessed niche, [1] is an artistic representation of a door which does not function like a real door. They ...
In the tomb of Hesy-re, the so-called false doors in which the deceased are portrayed standing or walking appear for the first time. Furthermore, the tomb of Hesy-re is the first of its kind in which a full offering list appears, which would become an essential part of the tombs in later generations (as for example in the mastabas of ...
Ptahshepses is mainly known from a false door that is today in the British Museum (Inv. no. EA 682), but coming from his tomb. A smaller fragment of the door is kept in the Oriental Institute Museum (Inv. no. 11084) in Chicago [1] He is also known from statues and had a mastaba at Saqqara (mastaba C 1). [2] His false door bears a biographical ...
The tomb is decorated with painted reliefs that include depictions of Meresankh and her family (including Hetepheres II), scenes of funerary preparations, and agricultural scenes. [2] One of the most unusual features is the north wall, which is carved with ten female figures in a row. [4] The west wall includes a false door. [12]
This chamber is approached through the mastaba tomb's false door. [2] Mereruka's mastaba tomb boasts vibrant and well preserved tomb decorations and numerous relief scenes. [7] His mastaba tomb remained hidden from view until it was discovered and excavated by Jacques de Morgan, of the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1892. [4]
The 3.60 m long, 1.45 m wide and 3.16 m high chamber contained two false doors in the west wall, which offerings were placed in front of. Behind the false door was the serdab, a small room which was completely walled off, in which the ka-statue of the tomb's owner was located. However, Hermann Junker was not able to locate the Ka-statue of ...
The false door styled as a palace-façade found in the tomb of Nyibunesu. Nyibunesu's mastaba (M1055) is one of the earliest at the Dendera necropolis. Indeed, the tomb of Nyibunesu is thought to be the oldest in the so-called "Abu Suten Group", a small group which includes the earliest burials in this area.
However, the chapel above the tomb was accessible. The west wall with a carved false door, was considered a symbolic representation of a gateway between the land of the living and the dead. [4] The back wall is occupied by two high false door stelae mimicking the facade of the royal palace.