This carved relief from a tomb in Saqqara shows a slave with gazelle from tomb in Saqqara. This relief of a slave carrying an offering of a gazelle is from the chapel of Raemkai that was originally built and decorated for an official named Neferiretnes. The chapel was part of a tomb in Saqqara, the royal necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis. The reliefs in this section show the tomb owner's attendants bringing six steppe animals to their lord. The animal attendants are called Ka-servants, meaning they were employed on the estates that supplied the provisions for the tomb owner's funeral cult. The attendant pictured here was named Ptahshepses and he carries a domesticated gazelle on his shoulders. The time period is the Old Kingdom, Dynasty V and more specifically, between c. 2446–2389 b.c.e.The illustration is credited to Belgium art historian Jean Capart (1877-1947) and Emil Roemmler (died 1941).
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This carved relief from a tomb in Saqqara shows a slave with gazelle from tomb in Saqqara. This relief of a slave carrying an offering of a gazelle is from the chapel of Raemkai that was originally built and decorated for an official named Neferiretnes. The chapel was part of a tomb in Saqqara, the royal necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis. The reliefs in this section show the tomb owner's attendants bringing six steppe animals to their lord. The animal attendants are called Ka-servants, meaning they were employed on the estates that supplied the provisions for the tomb owner's funeral cult. The attendant pictured here was named Ptahshepses and he carries a domesticated gazelle on his shoulders. The time period is the Old Kingdom, Dynasty V and more specifically, between c. 2446–2389 b.c.e.The illustration is credited to Belgium art historian Jean Capart (1877-1947) and Emil Roemmler (died 1941).

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third millennium b c tomb chapel Raemkai tomb Saqqara Neferiretnes slave carrying gazelle slave and gazelle Ka servants Ptahshepses Dynasty V tomb Egypt chapel of Raemkai Egpptian man and gazelle gazelle offering funeral rights ancient Egypt necropolis Saqqara gazelle tomb offerings ancient Egypt burial customs ancient Egypt ancient Egypt tomb reliefs ancient Egypt Saqqara Dynasty V Raemkai 2400s b c 2300s b c third millennium b c

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