Cleaning tent

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Purification tent in hieroglyphics
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abu / ibu
3bw / jbw cleaning tent

The cleaning tent ( ancient Egyptian : abu, ibu ) is an "early station" in the ancient Egyptian burial ritual .

Ritual sequence

One day after the death of a person, they were brought to the cleaning tent on a boat or ship crossing to the west bank of the Nile . This cleaning tent stood directly on the bank or was accessible via a short procession .

The corpses are washed in the cleaning tent . Then the body was taken to the embalming hall . The mouth opening ceremony was not performed in the purification tent, but only took place after the embalming .

Tent details

Few descriptions in ancient Egyptian graves allow a certain reconstruction of the cleaning tent: it is mostly a building in light wood construction with mat hangings, but partly also massive buildings. It is possible that the cleaning tent was only erected for the duration of the cleaning. At royal burials, it was assumed that the cleaning tent was located in the valley temple , but this is no longer the case.

See also

literature

  • Bernhard Grdseloff: The Egyptian cleaning tent: archaeological investigation , Le Caire: Impr. De l'IFAO, 1941.
  • James K. Hoffmeier: The Possible Origins of the Tent of Purification in the Egyptian Funerary Cult , In: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Volume 9 (1981), pp. 167-177.
  • Jürgen Settgast: Investigations into ancient Egyptian burial representations , Glückstadt 1963, a. a .: Augustin, pp. 3-15.
  • Dieter Kurth: cleaning tent , In: Helck, Wolfgang, Lexikon der Ägyptologie , Volume 5, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, Sp. 220–222.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An Apis animal to be mummified was brought to the House of Libation before embalming .
  2. ↑ Dieter Arnold : Lexicon of Egyptian architecture , → valley temple and → embalming hall (cleaning tent)