TOMB CHAPEL OF KAPURE
Excavated in 1903 at a site in Saqqara* just north of the pyramid of Djoser*, the tomb of Kapure had been discovered decades earlier.
Originally, the superstructure included an entrance, an outer room, a connecting corridor and a chapel. Only the walls of the connecting corridor still had carved and painted decoration. The chapel was the center of the mortuary cult, the place where funerary priests would perform rituals, recite spells and leave offerings to ensure that the deceased would prosper in the afterlife.
The focus of the chapel room is the false door on the west wall, the place where offerings would be made to the deceased, and where the spirit would come to take its sustenance. The inscriptions in the tomb for mostly take the form of offering formulas that list funerary requests on behalf of the deceased.
Excavated in 1903 at a site in Saqqara just north of the pyramid of Djoser, the tomb of Kapure had been discovered decades earlier.
Originally, the superstructure included an entrance, an outer room, a connecting corridor and a chapel. Only the walls of the connecting corridor still had carved and painted decoration. The chapel was the center of the mortuary cult, the place where funerary priests would perform rituals, recite spells and leave offerings to ensure that the deceased would prosper in the afterlife.
The focus of the chapel room is the false door on the west wall, the place where offerings would be made to the deceased, and where the spirit would come to take its sustenance. The inscriptions in the tomb for mostly take the form of offering formulas that list funerary requests on behalf of the deceased.
Originally, the superstructure included an entrance, an outer room, a connecting corridor and a chapel. Only the walls of the connecting corridor still had carved and painted decoration. The chapel was the center of the mortuary cult, the place where funerary priests would perform rituals, recite spells and leave offerings to ensure that the deceased would prosper in the afterlife.
The focus of the chapel room is the false door on the west wall, the place where offerings would be made to the deceased, and where the spirit would come to take its sustenance. The inscriptions in the tomb for mostly take the form of offering formulas that list funerary requests on behalf of the deceased.
