Journal Article

Unpublished False Door Preserved in Marsa Matruh's Museum

Mohammad, Walaa Omer

2025

Overview

This article studies a discovered inscribed limestone delusive door at Dahshur, preserved and displayed in Marsa Matruh Museum. The false door is dated to the end of Old Kingdom. The false door is described, the scenes are explained, and the texts are translated. The delusive door is dated according to its owner's name and offers a formula, architectural features, and decoration. The functions of the Old Kingdom delusive doors are essential funerary equipment for the private tombs of the Egyptian elite. There are two major religious roles of false doors that have been defined: Firstly; as connecting doors, and secondly; as the focus for the presentation of offerings for the deceased. Delusive doors performed roles that were focused on the living when they offered prayers and sacrifices to the dead and their kin. The literary evidence makes it abundantly evident that the living and the dead created a bond based on the \"do ut des\" principle, a bond in which the false doors were pivotal.

• Publisher: الجمعية العربية للحضارة والفنون الإسلامية
• Subject: الأبواب الوهمية / الثقافة الجنائزية / الحجر الجيري / متحف مرسى مطروح