SEMANTICS OF THE FROG IMAGE ON SOME VESSELS OF THE NEW KINGDOM ERA IN ANCIENT EGYPT
On the walls of Egyptian tombs of officials and nobles, as well as funeral temples of the New Kingdom era, there are images of foreigners carrying a wide variety of gifts from their country. Among the many scenes of offering gifts, one of the most interesting is one of the types of vessels that are offered-bowls, amphorae, or lydions made of gold, silver, or electrum - whose characteristic feature is a figure of a sitting frog placed either on a pedestal in the center or on a lid. In this article, the author sets out to clarify the semantics of such an image of a frog as one of the elements of an offering. Keywords: frog image, offering vessels, ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Nile The following images of offerings were selected as the material for consideration: * A fragment of the tomb painting of Amunejeh, ruler of Naharina (TT 84) (during the reign of Thutmose III, approximately 1479-1425 BC) (Fig. * An image from the tomb of the priest of Amun Puimr (TT 39), also dating back to the reign of Thutmose III (Fig. * Image from the tomb of Menkheperraseneb, high priest of Amun, in the time of Thutmose III (TT 86) (Fig. 3); * Image from the tomb of the chief of archers, who had the title "chief of the two lands of Retenu" (Palestine), Amenmosis, during the reign of Thutmose III (TT 42); * Image from the tomb of the chief of the herds of Amon Ken-Amun (TT 93) during the reign of Amenhotep II (approximately 1428-1397 BC) (Figure 4); * An image from the tomb of Sobekhotep (TT 63), dating from the reign of Thutmose IV (approximately 1397-1388 BC) (Figure 5); * A fragment from the tomb of Heya, the pharaoh's viceroy in Nubia (TT 40), during the reign of Tutankhamun (approximately 1333-1323 BC) (Fig. * A vessel found in the tomb of Iuya and Tuya, the parents of Queen Theia, wife of Amenhotep III (KV 46) (reigned approximately 1388-1351 BC); * A vessel depicted among other offerings to the gods of Thebes - Amun, Khonsu and Mut, on the wall of the funeral temple of Ramesses III ( ... Read more
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