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2. False door - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Ptahshepses (high priest) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Mereruka - Wikipedia

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   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]

6. Mastaba of Kaninisut - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. 3,500-year-old tombs of two royal officials opened in Egypt ...

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   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

8. Discovery of 20 ancient Egyptian tombs reveals idols and ...

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   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.

9. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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   The new false door was a non-functioning stone sculpture of a door, found either inside the chapel or on the outside of the mastaba; it served as a place to make offerings and recite prayers for the deceased. Statues of the deceased were being included in tombs and used for ritual purposes.