The majority of the book is dedicated to the iconography of the functioning image in the tomb chapel, its reception, and its purpose as a bridge between what was represented and what was signified, between the mundane and the sacred, and between the living and the dead. The book also discusses the different styles of painting in the chapels of state and religious officials and how these styles reveal workshop organization and “patronage” practices in Thebes. Various aspects of the pre-Amarna Theban tomb are explored, from the tomb’s purpose as a creative and commemorative vehicle for the deceased to the placement and functional properties of its imagery. The book studies the ways in which pictorial imagery functioned on behalf of the dead in the afterlife, presented their identity to the living, and revealed underlying religious developments with important societal implications. Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE examines the style, iconography, and symbolism of painting in all extant private Theban tomb chapels decorated during the reigns of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III.
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