A Third Intermediate Period openwork piece of funerary equipmentfrom the Chapel of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari
A set of wooden figures representing female deities with painted fronts and flat backswas identified in the archaeological material coming from recent excavations in the Chapel ofHatshepsut. The fragments were scattered through the shafts of Third Intermediate Period date.Most probably they had once...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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University of Warsaw Press
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean |
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| Online Access: | http://pam-journal.pl/gicid/01.3001.0010.0182 |
| Summary: | A set of wooden figures representing female deities with painted fronts and flat backswas identified in the archaeological material coming from recent excavations in the Chapel ofHatshepsut. The fragments were scattered through the shafts of Third Intermediate Period date.Most probably they had once formed a single piece of funerary equipment from one of the burials.Remains of nine figures were distinguished. These were divided into two groups by size. The smallscalefigures had outstretched arms, while the big-scale ones were shown with one arm raised andthe other lowered alongside the body. They are presumed to have been attached to a flat woodenbackground. Both iconographical types are attested in the decoration of mortuary equipment fromthe New Kingdom on, though no object decorated with the same set of goddesses has been foundso far. |
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| ISSN: | 1234-5415 2083-537X |