sábado, 27 de febrero de 2016

TT343, the Tomb of Benia aka Pahekamen (or Paheqamen)


The wall opposite that of the false door is very similar in design, but the similarity is broken by presenting of a funerary stela in its place. Either side are, as on the other wall, three registers showing Pahekamen holding offerings.
The stela is (unlike the false door) only painted on to the wall, which is usually the case. It consists of a large, yellow-ochre main field with 13 horizontal lines of inscription, crowned with a semicircular tympanum with different emblems a...nd complete with a list of offerings, today partially destroyed, of bread, beer, meat, poultry, etc. This, like the false door, extends to the floor, whilst the side registers do not. To right and left of the tympanum, stand, in accordance with geographical alignment, the hieroglyphs of east and west. In contrast to most stelae, the tympanum doesn't show the deceased in adoration of the gods of the dead, but two Udjat-eyes flanking the emblems of the shen-ring, a cup and three ripples of water. All these representations are raised in light relief, the inscriptions are in sunken relief and painted blue.
The framing registers again show the kneeling Pahekamen, who holds up offerings of bread, wine and cakes. The tomb owner appears to present offerings at his own stela, were it not for the fact that the god referred to in the registers would normally be represented in the tympanum, but is here replaced by the emblems. The deceased sacrifices to him. The text gives support however: at the start of the stela, after the standard opening formula, other gods are named in additional to the one named as "justified by Osiris" (in his different paraphrases) in the offering formulae of the side registers.
At the bottom of the stela, now almost destroyed, is a register containing imagery of the offerings.
TT343, the Tomb of Benia aka Pahekamen (or Paheqamen)
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TT343, the Tomb of Benia aka Pahekamen (or Paheqamen)







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