Uncommon Bodies and Positions of Offering Bearers Scenes in Old Kingdom Private Tombs | ||||
| Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage | ||||
| Volume 10, Issue 1, June 2025, Page 248-259 PDF (863.65 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Methodologies | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sis.2025.368534.1189 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Abdel-Rehim Mohamed Taee 
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| Lecturer, Tourism Guidance Department, Faculty of tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The scenes of offering bearers are among the most important and most frequently and diversely recurring religious scenes in the tombs of individuals throughout the different historical eras. The methods and means of presenting offerings varied between the lists, texts, and scenes. These texts and scenes were recorded on false doors, funerary tablets, and tomb walls. In this research, the study adopted the inventory and description of the strange and uncommon forms and positions of the offering bearers in the scenes of the tombs of individuals of the Old Kingdom. The study concluded that the uncommon bodies of the offering bearers varied between deformities. Uncommon positions, the appearance of dwarves in the scenes of offering bearers, and the disproportionate proportions of the body in the figures of some offering bearers. One of the offering bearers also appeared naked in one of the scenes. Perhaps the appearance of some Uncommon figures in the scenes of offering bearers can be explained by the artist’s desire to break the boredom and go beyond the familiar and traditional in depicting offering bearers. This may also be due to the weakness of art, especially during the Sixth Dynasty, which was clearly evident in the depiction of some offering bearers with bodies that were not proportionate in the depiction of their limbs. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| حاملى القرابين; مقابر الأفراد; الدولة القديمة; الهيئات; غير التقليدية | ||||
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