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The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza: A New Approach to their Interaction

By Leo Roeten

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9789004265455, 9004265457
ISSN
1566-2055
Google Books ID
6q62AgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33917568 bytes)
Series
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 70
Pages
lx+436\497
Topic
History Archaeology
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-10-27 08:39:53

Description

In The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza Leo Roeten presents a method that evaluates the degree of interaction between the various decoration themes that are placed on the western wall of the cult chapels at the tombs of Giza. Diagrams resulting from that method show that during the 5th dynasty the focus of the mode of food supply for the ka of the deceased changed from primarily active to primarily magical. On the other walls of the chapel this change not only led to the loss of some secondary cultic functions like the inviting and guiding functions, but also to an increasing focus on scenes from the daily life of the tomb owner.

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