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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 ...
Egypt, The false door of the tomb of the physician of Title: ... Image title: M0003502 Egypt, The false door of the tomb of the physician of Credit: Wellcome Library ...
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 Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of his tomb in the old state of Saqqara on Monday. The tomb has a fake door and features distinctive engravings and ...
The tomb was partially discovered nearly 160 years ago but was lost in the sand until now. 4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again
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]
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 tombs date to the late period, the last era of native-born ancient Egyptian rulers, which lasted from 664 to until the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., officials said.