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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 ...
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 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 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]
Archaeologists uncovered more than brick tombs during a recent discovery on the northern coast of Egypt.Within the 63 tombs, many dating back to the Late Period, roughly 664 BC to 525 BC, the team ...
With detailed wall inscriptions and the only known funerary garden, the restored tombs are a unique monument. 3,500-year-old tombs of two royal officials opened in Egypt. See the treasures inside
The false door provided an accessway for the deceased, as a spiritual being, to reach offerings left at the tomb by the living. These offerings were to be set on plinths in front of the false doors. [21]: 155–159 [22]: 19, 55 Behind the false doors is a small statue closet known as the serdab. A statue of each man would have been placed here ...