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By L H Roeten

Within the ornament at the Cult Chapel partitions of the previous nation Tombs at Giza Leo Roeten provides a style that evaluates the measure of interplay among a number of the ornament issues which are put on the western wall of the cult chapels on the tombs of Giza. Diagrams because of that procedure exhibit that in the fifth dynasty the point of interest of the mode of nutrition provide for the ka of the deceased replaced from basically lively to basically magical. at the different partitions of the chapel this variation not just ended in the lack of a few secondary cultic capabilities just like the inviting and guiding capabilities, but in addition to an expanding concentrate on scenes from the way of life of the tomb proprietor.

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Wijvekate, Verklarende statistiek (Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1969). ZÄS Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Leipzig, Berlin. Ziegler, Pharaons Chr. ), Les Pharaons (French edition, Paris, 2002). Bibliography of the tombs at Giza3 Name Tomb Owner PM, III1 Abdu 51 Akhetmehu Akhmerutnesut 87 80–1 Akhtihotp 200–1 ʿAnk-haf 60 Reference Abu-Bakr, Giza, 72–5, 80–2, figs. 46–51, 60–2; plate XXXVI–XXXVIII. , Atlas, III, plate 69. Der Manuelian, Giza archives, photos AAW1875–78, AAW1934, A781, A779, –784, –780, AAW1928–29, AAW1872–73, AAW1884.

23bc, plate XVII. Junker, Giza XI, fig. 49. Badawy, Nyhotepptah, 1–7, figs. , 9, 10b; LD, text 49–50; Junker, Giza III, 40(28); Harpur, DETOK, plan 117[430–1]; Altenmüller, Hetepniptah, figs. 1–7. Der Manuelian, Giza archives, photos A7720–22, A8315, C14370. ) Name Tomb Owner PM, III1 Heti 163–4 Iasen 82 I‛an 65 Idu 185–6 Idu [I] Idu [II] 165–6 Inpuhotp Irenreʿ 106–7 144–5 Ireru Iteti 280 193 Reference Junker, Giza VIII, 20–22; Der Manuelian, Heti, fig. 32. Der Manuelian, Giza archives, photos AEOS_II_2939, B7492, A6040_NS, A6041_ NS, A6042_NS, AEOS_II_2941, A6043_NS, AEOS_II_2940.

The fact that they are not the only scenes on the walls leads to the conclusion that the latter also play a role in the total cultic activity and for that reason must be included in the study too. An important point of investigation is whether or not all the scenes are placed there exclusively for the cult itself or whether there are also scenes employed to support the cult by signalling and guiding visitors to the chapel, or indeed to help unify the scenes on the wall? They could 8 Roeten, Second style.

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