This "Soul house" belongs to a category of terracotta objects which have been found in the modest tombs of Rifeh and which have the same function as an offering table. The model represents a rectangular house with a terrace which is equipped with two openings leading to the ground floor. The portico is composed of four pillars. In front of the portico, one notices offerings, executed in relief. It could be that the "soul houses" were a substitute in miniature for the large rock tombs of the high dignitaries.
Rifa
MIDDLE KINGDOM
KMKG - MRAH
Inventory number E.3176
W. F. Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, Londres 1907, pl. XVI A, nº 19
A. Endruweit, Städtischer Wohnbau im Ägypten, Berlin 1988, 52 n. 71
La tierra del toro apis. Dioses, Reyes y Hombres del Egipto Faraonica (Exposition), Pamplona 1997, 116
E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 62 nº 7
Fl. Doyen, Habitations domestiques, L'archéologue 44 (1999) 4
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