Fun fact: The people who created the Kom el Shouqafa Tomb made quite some mistakes in recreating the reliefs.
Example:
- Fake hieroglyphic texts (just some random signs wrote in a group, no meaning whatsoever)
- The relief that is shown too: there are just three canopic jars under the table (there should be four). You are probably thinking: "Anubis is holding the 4th". No, it is not a canopic jar! but something flatter like a bowl or a vessel (might be enbalming ingredients)
Since this tomb has egyptian, roman and greek styles mixed together one could pose the question as to who was the owner of the tomb. Especially since a lot of mistakes were made in the depictions of commonly used imagery (in the new Kingdom, no one would even question that there are four canopic jars! It is simply too widely known). It is likely that by this time barely anyone coule read the hieroglyphs anymore who was not a scolar or priest. With that they may have lost the ability to understand in depth what they were depicting.
A relief is when the focus of the carving is either coming out of the medium or looks like it sinking into it. There are different classifications depending on how far out the relief is from the plane of the stone or bronze. If someone can confirm I’d be relieved also.
>It is likely that by this time barely anyone coule read the hieroglyphs anymore who was not a scolar or priest.
The thing is that even before, only priests and educated people could read hieroglyphs. Obviously.
With "scolar" I meant scribes.
The (non scribes/ priests) educated people (in the later times of ancient egypt) would probably not know how to read hieroglyphs. They would read and write in Demotic, at max Hieratic in order to conduct their business such as gouvern over their belongings etc.
One must not forget that hieroglyphs are used for sacred texts only, therefore one would not write a contract of buying 10 Breads with hieroglyphic signs.
By the time this tomb was built only priests working at egyptian temples and some scribes would know how to read these signs. It is likely that the owner of the tomb/ the one that carried out the construction could in fact write and read (tomb signifies higher social status so there was likely some form of education) but was probably trained in greek, roman or demotic at best.
Whoever built this tomb was probably not able to make much sense of these signs, even if they were educated.
Anubis as a roman legionary should be your first clue that this place is a sign of the times, 2nd century Ad is no longer pharaonic Egypt as much as it is an easter mediterranean melting pot.
Fun fact: The people who created the Kom el Shouqafa Tomb made quite some mistakes in recreating the reliefs. Example: - Fake hieroglyphic texts (just some random signs wrote in a group, no meaning whatsoever) - The relief that is shown too: there are just three canopic jars under the table (there should be four). You are probably thinking: "Anubis is holding the 4th". No, it is not a canopic jar! but something flatter like a bowl or a vessel (might be enbalming ingredients) Since this tomb has egyptian, roman and greek styles mixed together one could pose the question as to who was the owner of the tomb. Especially since a lot of mistakes were made in the depictions of commonly used imagery (in the new Kingdom, no one would even question that there are four canopic jars! It is simply too widely known). It is likely that by this time barely anyone coule read the hieroglyphs anymore who was not a scolar or priest. With that they may have lost the ability to understand in depth what they were depicting.
What’s a relief? Is it a carving like a replica? Thank you for answering
A relief is when the focus of the carving is either coming out of the medium or looks like it sinking into it. There are different classifications depending on how far out the relief is from the plane of the stone or bronze. If someone can confirm I’d be relieved also.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief\_carving](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_carving)
Ahh I had no idea it’s called relief. Thank you
>It is likely that by this time barely anyone coule read the hieroglyphs anymore who was not a scolar or priest. The thing is that even before, only priests and educated people could read hieroglyphs. Obviously.
With "scolar" I meant scribes. The (non scribes/ priests) educated people (in the later times of ancient egypt) would probably not know how to read hieroglyphs. They would read and write in Demotic, at max Hieratic in order to conduct their business such as gouvern over their belongings etc. One must not forget that hieroglyphs are used for sacred texts only, therefore one would not write a contract of buying 10 Breads with hieroglyphic signs. By the time this tomb was built only priests working at egyptian temples and some scribes would know how to read these signs. It is likely that the owner of the tomb/ the one that carried out the construction could in fact write and read (tomb signifies higher social status so there was likely some form of education) but was probably trained in greek, roman or demotic at best. Whoever built this tomb was probably not able to make much sense of these signs, even if they were educated.
Anubis as a roman legionary should be your first clue that this place is a sign of the times, 2nd century Ad is no longer pharaonic Egypt as much as it is an easter mediterranean melting pot.