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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 ...
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]
False door and architrave of Ptahspepses. From the Tomb of Ptahshepses at Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, 25th century BCE. British Museum. Ptahshepses was an ancient Egyptian official at the end of the Fourth and the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty.
The west wall was the chief cultic focus of the tomb and contained two false doors. The south false door consists of an outer frame, a false door table, an inner frame, a wind screen and a door niche. Architrave on false door, south side (left) with text from the Book of the Dead Inscription on above false door architrave, south side, chapel G2155
Here, at the back, two limestone blocks were found: A false door styled as a palace-façade and, above it, the low relief of Nyibunesu. [4] The Egypt Exploration Fund presented those pieces to the British Museum right after they were found, in 1898. [11] Both are now displayed together in Room 4 (Egyptian Sculpture).
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Example of a mastaba, the Mastabat al-Fir'aun of Shepseskaf. A mastaba (/ ˈ m æ s t ə b ə / MASS-tə-bə, [1] / ˈ m ɑː s t ɑː b ɑː / MAHSS-tah-bah or / m ɑː ˈ s t ɑː b ɑː / mahss-TAH-bah), also mastabah or mastabat) is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks or limestone.