The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza

A New Approach to Their Interaction
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26545-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

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.

Zielgruppe

Those interested will be mainly Egyptologists and post-graduate students specializing in the chronological development of Old Kingdom tomb decoration and the offering cult during that period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roeten, L H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Ägyptologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The present study
Technical terms and abbreviations
Bibliography and bibliographical abbreviations
Bibliography of the tombs
Introduction
Compilation of (sub)themes
Chapter I Architecture, decoration and interpretation
Chapter II Preliminary considerations
Chapter III The methods employed in the present study
Chapter IV The western wall of the cult chapel
Chapter V The co-occurrence of (sub)themes on the western wall
Chapter VI The locations of the (sub)themes on the western wall
Chapter VII The relation between the (sub)themes on the western wall
Chapter VIII The decoration of the false door
Chapter IX The chronological development of the cultic character false door and its parts
Chapter X The interactions between the decoration of the western wall and the false door. Further considerations about the magical food supply
Chapter XI The results: analysis and correlation
Chapter XII The entrance jambs and the entrance thicknesses
Chapter XIII The northern wall of the chapel
Chapter XIV The southern wall of the chapel
Chapter XV The eastern wall of the chapel
Chapter XVI The interaction between (sub)themes on the various walls
Chapter XVII Conclusions
Part II: Annex
Catalogues
Tables
Diagrams
Chronological orderings

Über Autor(innen)

Leo Roeten, Ph.D. (2011), University of Leiden (The Netherlands), has published articles on the decoration of Old Kingdom tomb chapels, on two- and three-dimensional Egyptian art, and pyramid development.