Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Hi Ants
>
> I'm not even sure about the owner of the tomb
> waiting for additional great feats. If that was
> the case, then we'd see some of those feats in
> Horemheb's KV tomb.
> While his Saqqara tomb is full
> of fame and glory, the KV has none of it (and boy,
> did he wever have time to finish it... if he
> wanted to)!
Good point... but could this be the result of the overshadowing importance of the mortuary temples as opposed to the tomb itself?
> As for completely finished tombs, I think some of
> the Thothmoside tombs were, as was AIII's tomb
> also. So no go with the arrogance-factor either.
I really do hate the New Kingdom.
> But...
> all of these tombs do have their false doors.
> Therefore I am inclined to think, that the
> mummified body in it's sargophagus and the false
> door were what really counted.
"Really counted the most" might be my only modification.
> After all, that is
> the core of the idea of Re and Osiris uniting and
> rejuvenating each night (already alluded to in the
> PTs). As the same principle can be drawn to the
> level of the Ba and the mummy.... what else did
> one really need.
Well, I won't pull Osiris back to Dynasty IV, but even without him, there's plenty that can go just fine in a burial. Obviously... since they were doing it for centuries before Osiris was even a glimmer in his mother's eye.
>
> Heheh, and hey, if you are trying to imply that
> since the mids themselves were not all that
> important (whether finished or not, that is), then
> the Giza formation cannot be correlated to sAH.
I would never suggest it was.
> Well, as you know, the MTs correlate better to sAH
> and the false doors were in all probablity in the
> MTs.
Nor would I suggest the MTs were in any way correlated to anything "stellar". Based on my Dynasty 1-5 studies, I simply can't even begin to understand where that would come from.
Good chatting with you.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
