As the Egyptians believed that the human life force (the ka) lived on and needed to be provided for and nourished in the afterlife, the Egyptian tomb was the context for many of the objects discovered in ancient Egypt by archaeologists. This week you will read a chapter on provisioning the dead from John Taylor's Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (2001).
1. In what ways did the ancient Egyptians provision the ka?
2. What is the false door and how is it typically decorated?
3. What are the most common types of models found in the tombs of the Old and Middle Kingdoms
4. What activities are most often represented in these tomb models?
5. What are the models made of early on? What were the models made of after the Old Kingdom?
6. If provisioning the ka was a modern practice, what type of models might be placed in a tomb today?
should respond to these six questions and must be at least one hundred and twenty five word in lenght.