A typical false door to an Egyptian tomb. The deceased is shown above the central niche in front of a table of offerings, and inscriptions listing offerings for the deceased are carved along the side panels. Louvre Museum.
A false door, or recessed niche,[1] is an artistic representation of a door which does not function like a real door. They can be carved in a wall or painted on it. They are a common architectural element in the tombs of ancient Egypt, but appeared possibly earlier in some Pre-Nuragic Sardinian tombs known as Domus de Janas. Later they also occur in Etruscan tombs and in the time of ancient Rome they were used in the interiors of both houses and tombs.
^"The term false door (also ka-door, false- door stela, fausse-porte, Scheintiir) denotes an architectural element that is found mostly in private tomb structures of the Old Kingdom (mastabas and rock-cut tombs): a recessed niche, either in the western wall of the offering chamber, or in the eastern tomb facade. It imitates the most important parts of an Egyptian door, but the niche offers no real entrance to any interior space. Such fictitious doors are also attested in other architectural contexts" in Redford, Donald B. (2001). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt: A-F. Oxford University Press. p. 498. ISBN 978-0195138214.
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short tons), in the city of Axum in Ethiopia. It is ornamented with two falsedoors at the base and features decorations resembling windows on all sides...
such as spirals, zig-zag motifs and bull's horns. Carved or painted falsedoors appear in about 20 tombs mostly located in northwestern Sardinia,: 137–9 ...
offerings were to be set on plinths in front of the falsedoors.: 155–159 : 19, 55 Behind the falsedoors is a small statue closet known as the serdab. A...
rectangular interior of Seneb's mastaba contained two cult niches with a falsedoor and cavities containing stone chests. Three statues were found within...
western door to the Red Room was sealed. On the Red Room side of the wall, a falsedoor was cut into the wall south of the now-sealed central door, and the...
back opposite the entrance two of these figures are separated by a falsedoor, a door painted on the wall. On the wall to the right of the entrance two...
receive offerings. These were both real and represented by formulae on the falsedoor. Liminal, or boundary, stele were used to mark size and location of fields...
he asked the king that a falsedoor be made for his [Niankhsekhmet's] tomb, to which the king agreed. Sahure had the falsedoor made of fine Tura limestone...
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Cemetery. Giza Mastabas. Vol. 4. p. 34. "Image of the titles of Nykahap on a falsedoor jamb in the chapel of his tomb G 2352". Jánosi, Peter (2002). "Bemerkungen...
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northernmost falsedoor bears the titles of Khamerernebty, a daughter of king Nyuserre, and a priestess of Hathor. The second falsedoor bears the name...
table". Only trace elements of the chapel remain. These chapels had a falsedoor and a decoration scheme similar to the offering hall, which the archaeologist...
two contemporary sources. Indeed, Neferkare Neby's name appears on the falsedoor at Ankhesenpepi II's tomb, and is also inscribed on her sarcophagus. These...
decoration was already badly destroyed. Richard Lepsius (1842–45) took the falsedoor to Berlin and copied some inscribed bricks. Only in 1906 Kurt Sethe copied...
dynasty. Ramose is known from a few contemporary sources. He appears on the falsedoor and likely, also on the chapel of Senenmut's TT71 tomb chapel. Ramose...
concrete protects the chamber. On the west side of the burial chamber is a falsedoor and a huge granite block on which once stood the sarcophagus of the king...
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