Female Offering Bearers Scenes During The Middle Kingdom
Female Offering Bearers' Scenes during the Middle Kingdom
The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about death and the afterlife. They believed that humans possessed a ka, which left the body at the point of death. In life, the ka received its sustenance from food and drink, so it was believed that, to endure after death, the ka must continue to receive offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it could still consume. They were depending on their offerings to live again in the afterworld. They depict their followers presenting offering in their tombs. All the activities done in their life they were portrayed it in their tombs.
This paper concentrates on the female bearers only. It will present and collect Middle Kingdom offering bearers' scenes.
The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about death and the afterlife. They believed that humans possessed a ka, which left the body at the point of death. In life, the ka received its sustenance from food and drink, so it was believed that, to endure after death, the ka must continue to receive offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it could still consume. They were depending on their offerings to live again in the afterworld. They depict their followers presenting offering in their tombs. All the activities done in their life they were portrayed it in their tombs.
This paper concentrates on the female bearers only. It will present and collect Middle Kingdom offering bearers' scenes.