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sennedjem the man who decorated the ancient egypt royal tombs
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/ sgroupeg • • / s.g_group • • / sgroup1 • • The Tomb of Sennedjem Sennedjem lived in Deir el-Medina (The Village), or the Place of Truth, on the geographical region of the Nile, opposite Thebes, during the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses the Great. He was buried together with his wife, Iy-neferti, and family in an exceedingly tomb within the village necropolis. His titles included Servant within the Place of Truth, meaning that he worked on the excavation and decoration of the nearby royal tombs. He was also allowed to make and decorate his own tomb, and therefore the results of his spare time labour is magnificent to the present day. The end wall shows Sennedjem's view of his afterlife, evidently as a farmer reaping corn, ploughing with oxen, and growing fruit on heavily laden fruit trees in an orchard. he's accompanied throughout by his faithful wife Iy-neferti. The farm is surrounded by streams of water. This view of heaven is all the more poignant once you realise that he had spent his life living within the arid desert where Deir el-Medina was situated on the geographic region. So, heaven to him might somewhat be as shown on the walls of the tomb, with food and water in abundance. The top register shows RaHorakhte-Atum, Lord of the 2 lands, Kheper (the rising Sun) within the solar barque, attended by the baboons who howled at sunrise and sunset on a daily basis, so were considered sacred. Did Sennedjem identify with RaHorakhte, as would the pharaoh upon death? Why not. The opposite end-wall shows Sennedjem and Iy-neferti worshiping some thirteen gods, with Osiris and Ra-Horakhte (Horus within the Horizon, an amalgam of Horus and Ra) leading each row. the 2 rows may therefore have corresponded with gods of the Duat or underworld and gods of the everyday world of KMT, or Egypt. Next, Anubis performing mummification rites over the mother of the Pharaoh Seti I, who is stretched on an elaborate lion-bed. this is able to be a duplicate of the work that Sennedjem had disbursed in Seti I's tomb within the Valley of the Kings… there's also a version of this within the tomb of Nefertari, Rameses II's Great Wife. Sennedjem served both pharaohs... The last photograph is of Osiris as pharaoh, ruler of the Underworld, the Duat, with the eyes of Horus betting on. the 2 posts on either side are the Imiut Fetish, otherwise the Anubis Fetish: they comprise a stuffed animal product, often a bull or a feline, tied by the tail to a pole terminating in a very lotus bud, set into a stand. The origin and significance of the Imiut fetish is oscure, but dates from the primary dynasty, or perhaps before. the full depiction may represent a ritual temple to Osiris, or even perhaps a notional entrance to his underworld domain. Such depictions don't seem to be uncommon in royal tombs of the time, e.g. Hatshepsut, Tutankhamun, Seti I, Nefertari… Taken together, the four walls show Sennedjem and Iy-neferti making the obligatory offerings and prayers to enter the Duat, and their image of what their afterlife was to be. Altogether rather beautiful and exceedingly well preserved. .Sennedjem lived during the 19th Dynasty, under the reign of Pharaoh Sethy I and also the first years of Ramses II. He was buried within the chamber of his tomb probably around year 11 of the reign of Ramesses. After three thousand years of peaceful rest, his burial was - alas for him and his family - discovered in 1886. Tomb is an exceptional monument one in every of the foremost beautiful and better preserved tomb of Thebes; but it's, besides, an ideal example, complete and typical of a tomb for an excellent family, with the four regular components, a courtyard and chapel accessible to the living, a well shaft and a chamber reserved for the dead .
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