REL2011/Evans Course Module:
Cosmological Reflections in Egyptian Funerary Architecture



Cosmological Significance of Wall Paintings

Instructions: Read the introductory paragraph on tomb types below. Then click on each of the thumbnail images to learn more about the use of wall paintings. When done complete the Student Assignment to finish the course module.


Companions and Entertainment
Cosmological order
Relation to gods

The walls, ceiling, and occasionally floor of the tomb were painted or chiseled with scenes designed to support the afterlife and cosmological order includings scenes to: 1) provide for companionship and entertainment 2) order/creation of the universe, and 3) affirm relationship to gods.



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Last revised: Jan. 18, 1998