Showing posts with label Mastaba of Ptah-hotep and Ankhti-hotep (North Saqqara). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mastaba of Ptah-hotep and Ankhti-hotep (North Saqqara). Show all posts

Mastaba of Ptah-hotep and Ankhti-hotep (North Saqqara)



Ptah-hotep, a cleric o Maat amid the rule of Djedkare

Ankh-ti-hotep his child, was the visioer, judge and administrator of the silos.

Reliefs are in different phases of fruition. Not painted.

*Mural aboe the passageway demonstrates the minister being manicured and pedicured when Europe was in the stone age.

May contain the main craftsman's mark - Ankhen-ptah, the central craftsman.

Ptah-hotep was a cleric of Maat, and held an essential position amid the regin of Djedkare. Akhti-hotep was his dad, and vizier, head of the treasurey and silo and also judge.

Littler than Ti's mastaba, and not entirely brightened.

Principle passage has reliefs on each side, on the left are line drawings in red and rectified in dark.

Reliefs in the tomb chamber are very much safeguarded, a portion of the best of the old kingdom. They hold some shading.

Roofs in the tomb chamber are the impersonation trunks of palm trees.

Akhti-hotep's chamber is less enriched and littler. There is a chamberon the left that contains a unidentified mummy.

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