
Historical Reproduction: Offering Bearer - Tomb Chapel of Raemkai
Handmade Limestone Reproduction - Museum Quality A reproduction from the Metropolitan museumTomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor Scenes decorating the entrance thicknesses of Old Kingdom tombs often included a movement of people and objects into the interior.The entrance corridor here is decorated on both sides with scenes in several registers. At the very top, parts of two ships can be seen.Only the hulls of ships are preserved, but the absence of rowing oars and the position of the steering oars show that both boats are sailing westward into the tomb, and thus into the realm of the dead.In the registers below, an enshrined statue of the deceased is dragged on a sled over ground moistened by a man pouring water from a jar. The inscription reads: "accompanying the statue to its chamber." In the third register offering bearers march into the tomb. Even the slaughter of oxen in the bottom register is a fitting theme for an entrance corridor, as butchering usually t