Personification of Seasons in the Ancient Egyptian Art

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University

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The Egyptian year was mainly divided into three seasons; Ahket (inundation), Pret (the emergence of crops), and Shemu (harvest). Such seasons were just like various human activities. Each one included agriculture, horticulture, hunting and fishing, building papyrus-boats, domestic and wild animals as well as plants that were represented in the Egyptian art. Accordingly, the significance of the study is to examine the personification of seasons in the Egyptian art through studying the representation of seasons' activities and their personifications. The current study was undertaken to investigate carefully the activities during the seasons of the Egyptian year as depicted on the walls of the "chamber of seasons" within the royal funerary complex, presenting personification of seasons in the Egyptian art.The study attempted to answer a number of questions. The major one was as follows: Are the three seasons depicted obviously in the ancient Egyptian art? This question was branched into three sub-questions. The first was as follows: what are the reasons for seasons' personification? The Second one was: Why are the scenes involved in tomb's owner? The third was represented in the following: Why do the private tombs contain personifications as well as the royal funerary complex?

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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality
Volume 13, Issue 3
December 2016
Pages 27-39

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