Moralizing Neoliberalism?

The Rituals of Purification and Mummification in the Old Kingdom: Sequence, Time and Location

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“…The actual interpretation of the two funeral scenes in the tomb of Pepyankh Heny-Kem is different from that of Blackman as he suggested that the eastern wall and western wall represent two ceremonies of one funeral procession; one for delivering the body to the embalmer"s workshop and the other for collecting the body to be buried during the funeral day. 53 This research supposes that each funeral scene in each wall contains the two ceremonies in the same time without separation of their events. The First Ceremony in Old Kingdome Funeral Services: it aims mainly at transporting the body to the Embalming Workshop in the cemetery which is in the west.…”

“…He argued that "the bearers did not leave the sarcophagus with the embalmers, but took it away with them". 60 He proposed also that "the two figures on the third register may have formed a part of the group carrying the now empty sarcophagus". 61 This is obviously a wrong interpretation because the sequence of the episodes after the Embalmer"s Workshop, shown in the upper register, is incomplete and…”