The tomb contains paintings of a prominent priestess, plus a rare image of a dancing monkey. (Detail of wall painting, credit article author?)
Posted on 12/16/2018 8:15:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,400-year-old Egyptian tomb that they believe belonged to a high-ranking priestess. The Egyptian government revealed the new discovery on February 3, 2018, noting that this tomb on the Giza plateau contains rare wall paintings.
The researchers say this tomb belonged to Hetpet, a priestess for the goddess Hathor. Often depicted as a woman with a cow's head, Hathor is associated with fertility, music, love, among several other qualities (including drunkenness). They concluded this tomb belonged to Hetpet because it contained a purification basin engraved with her name and titles, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). In addition, some of the tomb's paintings depict Hetpet hunting, fishing, or interacting with children...
Hetpet's tomb stands in the Saqqara necropolis, a famous burial ground for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. The necropolis contains many of the tombs of top Egyptian officials during the Old Kingdom's Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from about 2465 to 2323 B.C.E.
The Antiquities Ministry said that Hetpet's tomb matches the Fifth Dynasty's style and architecture. It also contains a rare paintings of a monkey dancing in front of an orchestra, further tying the tomb to the Old Kingdom (this was the era in which Egypt perfected pyramid construction).
"Such scenes are rare ... and have only been found previously in the [Old Kingdom] tomb of 'Ka-Iber,' where a painting shows a monkey dancing in front of a guitarist not an orchestra," Waziri told AFP. Ka-Iber's tomb, too, is located in Saqqara.
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The tomb contains paintings of a prominent priestess, plus a rare image of a dancing monkey. (Detail of wall painting, credit article author?)
While looking for pics of the new find (seen in the earlier topics), I found this one which got missed in February, same general vicinity, but a different tomb.
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>>The researchers say this tomb belonged to Hetpet, a priestess for the goddess Hathor. Often depicted as a woman with a cow’s head,
Portrait of Hetpet by her son-in-law, no doubt.
Excellent! I'll check those out, probably as soon as I post this. I love Tony as a presenter, although he's completely dim about archaeology and even about history. A day or so ago I played the YouTube of his program on the "Real King of England", where he tracked down the Plantagenet heir in Australia. :^) That guy has since passed away, leaving the "title" to his male descendant.
I've visited the replica of Seti the Great's tomb (KV17), it's really nice, I think it's still on tour somewhere in the US (or perhaps not), but the original is larger, and (despite what it says at this page) one of the largest tombs, not the largest -- the largest by far is KV5, and the largest single room in an Egyptian tomb is in Ramesses the Great's (KV7).
Interior for the tomb of Seti I
LOL!
Gotta wonder if the ancient Egyptian artists were just pervs.
Perhaps you might like Alice Roberts better as a presenter. Digging For Britain recently started season 7 and is up to episode 3 now.
Maybe, depends on her voice I suppose. Some just have it, many don't. Worst vids I've seen though tend to be AI readers with accents synthesized from UK and/or Downunder accents. Awful. One of these vids had a crap narrator *and* was generating fake snowfall over the picture. Clueless. Anyway, thanks, I'll check that out, always looking for freebie documentaries.
Check out her voice for yourself. She's certainly better on the eyes than Tony Robinson
the one I tried (YouTube version) wasn't well titled, turned out to be some revisionism about the Battle of the Somme, so I'll try another, probably not using the Roku, search is a chore, and results are often poor.
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