Relief of a Servant

dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-16T16:31:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-16T16:31:00Z
dc.description	Ancient Egyptian tombs served as the eternal resting place for the deceased. Egyptian artists decorated tomb walls with scenes of the deceased receiving gifts in the afterlife and with pictures of daily life, which might show the deceased hunting or fishing in the marshes, or his servants working in the fields or leading cattle or sheep.These low-relief sculptures, presented in registers or rows on the tomb walls, were meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife. The ancient Egyptians believed that once the deceased person was laid to rest and the tomb sealed, these scenes would come to life and provide the deceased with food and earthly pleasures in the afterlife.
dc.description.sponsorship	Gift of James and Aneta McIntyre
dc.format.extent	15.375" x 10"
dc.format.medium	Sculpture
dc.format.medium	Limestone with traces of paint
dc.identifier.other	2004.069.001
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10177/20352
dc.relation.ispartof	Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem Oregon
dc.relation.ispartof	Ancient Art Collection
dc.rights	For use information see: http://www.willamette.edu/arts/hfma/collections/copyright.html
dc.title	Relief of a Servant
dspace.iiif.enabled	TRUE
iiif.canvas.naming	Image
local.culture	Ancient Mediterannean / Egypt
local.mastercopy	HfmoaVolume20\600.jp2

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