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A False Door of Unknown Provenance in the Cairo Museum

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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The paper examines one of the limestone false doors which is located in the Cairo Museum as well as the offices, social standing, dates of its owner and suggests a provenance for its original location.
False door was part of the funerary equipment. It was usually located on the west wall of the deceased's tomb where, according to the Ancient Egyptian Theology, the Netherworld existed. Thus, False door served as an offering stela.
The false door that forms the main subject of this article belongs to a very late Old Kingdom official named Ppy-anx.
The paper discusses the main description of the false door with its principal elements, the architectural and the iconographical features depicted on its various parts followed by a commentary on these features. As well as the texts registered on its different parts followed by a commentary on the name, titles and epithets held by the deceased beside the commentary on different features on the text. Then, it is followed by notes on some orthographical remarks on the text and finally, the Author suggests a different date for that false door than that given by Borchardt depending on its architectural, stylistic and textual features and assigning a particular provenance for the false door, depending as well as on some stylistic and orthographical features, which is the cemetery of “South Saqqara".
 
 

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10.21608/jarch.2024.333390

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Ppy-anx, CG 1505, JdE 25160, False door, Cairo museum, Titles

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Ahmed

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Hamdy Abdelmoniem Mohammed Hussein

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Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University

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15

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27

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45115

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2024-01-01

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2023-12-31

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2024-01-01

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135

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170

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1110-5801

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2682-4884

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مجلة کلية الآثار . جامعة القاهرة

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A False Door of Unknown Provenance in the Cairo Museum

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25 Dec 2024