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New Light on the Possible Reasons for Representing the Nine Bows in Some 18th Dynasty Private Theban Tombs

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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In only some 18th dynasty Theban private tombs that few scenes depicted the king in his royal kiosk with the Nine Bows as a decorative motif. This motif had disappeared from the private Theban scenes of the latter periods for unknown reasons. Therefore, this paper aims at identifying the locations of the tombs including these scenes, their dates and the titles of their owners. It also displays and examines the scenes showing this motif in the Theban private tombs and their types to understand the possible reasons behind their appearance in certain tombs and times and disappearance in the later times. It uses analytical descriptive methodology for the scenes and their contexts. It concludes that the representation of the Nine Bows in the funerary context was because of political context of the country, social state of the owner of the tomb and a reflection of religious funerary belief on the funerary art during a short time. The disappearance of this phenomenon was maybe of a change of artistic style or kings' desire to limit this icon to their monuments.   

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2022.110733.1278

Keywords

Nine Bows, Decorative motif, Royal kiosk, Social state, Political context, Funerary belief, Artistic reflection

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Zein

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Affiliation

Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Luxor University, Egypt

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mohamed.zein@fth.luxor.edu.eg

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LUXOR

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0000-0003-4654-4655

Volume

21

Article Issue

5

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29521

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-12-11

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2021-12-01

Page Start

100

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117

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1687-1863

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2682-4612

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/article_219041.html

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5

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997

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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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New Light on the Possible Reasons for Representing the Nine Bows in Some 18th Dynasty Private Theban Tombs

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22 Jan 2023