The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes, aka Paroy

The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes,
aka Paroy

They include one of the rare funerary scenes of the tomb, of which only a few fragments still exist. We find a rather intriguing representation of two priests covered in a very tight girdle (shroud, or skin), with red horizontal stripes, except for the head. One is seated, the other stretched out on a kind of low bed, the legs of which bent towards the interior. This is a representation concerning the sem-priest during the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in two states, "sleeping" and "awake". According to Budge, the sem-priest is first "asleep", a state during which he sees his "father" (i.e. the deceased) in "all his manifestations". Then he awakens and tells of his visions. It is suggested lately that the sem-priest would act as the first Egyptian magician and that the whole of the scene would correspond - in a shaman-like manner - to a sort of trance during a pseudo sleep. This ritual could have a tie with the mysterious Tekenu. A similar scene is in the ritual for opening the mouth section in the tomb of Rekhmire TT 100.

Errected mummies belong to other scenes of the ritual

The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes,

aka Paroy

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