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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4860#0095
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
The message whose spirit the fear of death and darkness swept in recurrent shocks.
of these
paintings The apparent duplication of scenes on walls and ceiling may have its
meaning. The frequent appearance of the watered garden and its god-
dess overhead suggests that a belief in a heaven which lay in the sky,
instead of beneath the western mountain, may have been in force; the
actual garden of the tomb was regarded only as a prototype and forecast
of a surpassing paradise above or beyond.
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The message whose spirit the fear of death and darkness swept in recurrent shocks.
of these
paintings The apparent duplication of scenes on walls and ceiling may have its
meaning. The frequent appearance of the watered garden and its god-
dess overhead suggests that a belief in a heaven which lay in the sky,
instead of beneath the western mountain, may have been in force; the
actual garden of the tomb was regarded only as a prototype and forecast
of a surpassing paradise above or beyond.
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