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Animate Decoration in the Burial Chamber

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2021
The exclusion of animate beings from the scenes displayed on the walls of Old Kingdom burial chambers has long been understood as a means to protect the deceased from any potential harm the figures might pose. Funerary models likewise depict people and animals from everyday life, yet they were included in burial chambers for a more expansive time ...
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Animate Decoration and Burial Chambers of Private Tombs during the Old Kingdom. New Evidence from the Tomb of Kairer at Saqqara

2005
À partir du règne d’Ounas, l’usage se répand de décorer les parois des chambres funéraires des tombes privées. Les représentations habituelles consistent en « natures mortes », tableaux d’offrandes alimentaires ou d’équipement funéraire. Pourtant sur 121 tombes étudiées, 24 présentent des scènes animées (personnages ou animaux). Si sept appartiennent à
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Small carnivores from a Late Neolithic burial chamber at Çatalhöyük, Turkey: pelts, rituals, and rodents

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2017
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