The false door of mtw from saqqara

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A false door in Cairo Museum is the subject of this article⁽*).

It bears the no.

CG 1397, it is a false door belonging to the scribe of the royal documents, scribe of the royal records in the presence, royal chamberlain, juridical overseer of scribes and the overseer of the divisions of divine offerings MTw.

It was found in Saqqara^([1]), but no information is available about its accurate location, the false door includes many interesting and significant details regarding its epigraphic and artistic details.

The current article is a complete scientific publishing of this false door, it includes the main description of the false door, the texts inscribed on its parts, itstransliteration and translation, comments on it and finally the researcher's suggestion for a specific date for it depending on the titles inscribed on it, the general overview, the iconographic features as well as the epigraphical features.

Description:
The false door^([2]) is made of limestone, it measures 166 c.

m in height and 150 c.

m in width, no traces of colors are found.

The state of the false door is fine, it shows the principal components of the false doors which dates back to the end of the Old Kingdom.

All the texts and figures on the false door were cut in sunk relief^([3]), except the figures only of the panel were cut in raised relief.

Its upper edge



(*) I would like to thank Dr.

Mahmoud El Halwagy, the former Director General of Cairo Museum, for his consent to publish this false door.

([1]) The false door was from the publications of Borchardt, L.

, Denkmäler des Alten Reiches im Museum von Kairo I, pp.

56-57 (CG 1397).

([2]) The terms used in this article to describe the main components of the false door are those of Strudwick, N.

, Administration, pp.

10-11, fig.

1.

([3]) The sunk relief began as a style to decorate the false doors in Saqqara at least by the reign of Neuserre and by the end of the fifth dynasty it became the prevalent style.

El-Khadragy, M.

, “Two Old Kingdom false doors from Saqqara”, p.

43.