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Abstract
In all periods, the family is the basic unit of the human society. The people of ancient Egypt highly valued family life. The family consists of the husband. wife and their children, the extended family of lineal relations such as grandparents and grandchildren and collateral relations such as brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Family was particularly important to the Egyptian way of life; it was considered the nucleus of life among those classes of Egyptian culture, particularly among the lower and middle classes.
There is no doubt, the family scenes of ancient Egyptians reflected the tomb owner’s desire ofbeingjoilled with his family members who were shown in his tomb, in his afterlife, and the close and loving relationship formed the basis of the stable social order which was a feature of ancient Egyptian civilization. Therefore, family relationships were greatly dealt with through the family representations on the walls of the tombs. A typical family structure in ancient Egypt would be similar to what we find in today’s Egypt.
Since the nuclear family was the core of Egyptian society, the noblemen were one of the ociety classes who were keen to represent their own family in their tombs. Despite the fact that the private tombs were a personal possession of a single householder, when the tomb owner offered his hospitality to many members of the family and his descendants that emphasized the family’s importance. The individual tombs were of the ideal examples which always included family representations, in different types of scenes.
The types of scenes in which the family members were represented are various, such as funeral cenes, underworld scenes, offering scenes, banquet scenes, leisure scenes, weighing of the hean scenes, fishing and fowling scenes, tree-goddess scenes, and other types of scenes that were portrayed, on the walls of the tombs. Each one of the family has a specific role in these cenes. To identify these roles, a study of each member’s representations in the different types of
scenes should be made.