The Spiritualization of Kagemni

A “ghost” fragment from the chapel of Tuthmosis I in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex of the Hatshepsut Temple

“…14 According to a recent restoration by Lapp the scenes of the offering ritual were arranged there in two registers (Lapp 1986: 186), thus providing an explicit paradigm for the scenes in question. Profound modifications of the motif occurred in the decoration of the Old and Middle Kingdom private tomb chapels, as well as in the Theban tombs of New Kingdom date (see, e.g., Badawy 1981;Spiegel 1956), although some of the early examples provide significant parallels for the choice of ritual scenes (for example, the scenes from the mastaba of Kagemni, see Badawy 1981: Fig. 1;Lapp 1986: Fig.…”