A comparative study of the scenes under the noble chair on the walls of individual tombs from the old state to the modern state

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Faculty Member, Department of History - Faculty of Education - Ain Shams University (Egypt)

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The Old Egyptian tended to show scenes under his chair, on which he sits alone or with his wife; scenes of pets like dogs and monkeys, waterfowls like geese, human beings, or some stuffs like writing tools, mirrors, vessels and chests. He depicted these scenes in many occasions like making up, fishing, receiving reports, watching the various activities, celebrating banquets and in front of offering tables. After treating this topic, some results were concluded like for instance: The Old Egyptian tended to depict the monkeys, geese and cats in the New Kingdom in the most scenes of offering tables under the chair of the tomb owner, on which he sits alone or with his wife; may be as a desire to represent the triad of Thebes, which was worshiped in the New Kingdom represented in the father “Amun” with his symbol as goose, the mother “Mut” symbolized as a cat and the son “Chonso” as a monkey. Also, the most of these scenes are depicted in front of offering table or while receiving the offerings (funeral rites), which makes it likely that these portrayals are associated with the resurrection and rebirth like the “senetgame”, the geese and the lotus flowers, which appeared for the first time in the New Kingdom; that period in which the Old Egyptians commonly depicted scenes of netherworld rather than secular scenes. It confirms that the Old Egyptian’s thought was pivoted about the success by all means of his resurrection in the netherworld, aided with depictions that help him for doing it. From these representations are also the mirrors, which were depicted in scenes of offering tables in the New Kingdom more than the Old and Middle kingdom.

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