عناصر مشابهة

Cooking and Cooker Scenes in Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom Private Tombs

تفصيل البيانات البيبلوغرافية
المصدر:مجلة المنيا لبحوث السياحة والضيافة
الناشر: جامعة المنيا - كلية السياحة والفنادق
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hamcd, Ahmed Ebied Ali (مؤلف)
المجلد/العدد:مج1, ع1
محكمة:نعم
الدولة:مصر
التاريخ الميلادي:2016
الصفحات:191 - 209
ISSN:2357-0652
رقم MD:934178
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة:English
قواعد المعلومات:HumanIndex
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المستخلص:Amongst many other accomplishments, the ancient Egyptians are famous for the quality of their tomb decorations. These cover a range of different motifs, from scenes of daily life to the most solemn ceremonies for the dead during the transition to the hereafter. How the food was prepared or cooked in ancient Egypt? This is the most important questioii asked today. Both the living and the dead were nourished by food and drink, so they were necessity and a pleasure much appreciated by the ancient Egyptians Scenes connected with food and eating are commonly featured in tomb scenes. Cooking and eating scenes were rare in ancient Egyptian tombs, and temples. Food was baited, boiled, stewed, fried, grilled, or roasted, but other than that very little is known about its preparation. Egyptian food was cooked in simple clay pots, using wooden utensils and stored in jars. All these depictions served a ritual purpose, and the reason that ordinary activities were represented was to ensure that the familiar order of life would be perpetuated after death. This paper addresses important questions; Why they depicting these scenes in their tombs? What is meant here? What are the types of preparing food? Who was depicted as a cooker, men or women? And finally, where is the place of the cooking scene inside the tombs? This paper aims to focus on the ancient Egyptian Cook and Cooker scenes in Middle Kingdom Private Tombs.