The Social Status of the Wives of the Individuals in the Light of the Scenes of the Offering Tables in the Tombs of the Individuals in Thebes until the End of the Late Period

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1 Tourism Guidance Department- Faculty of Tourism and Hotels -Fayoum University

2 Department of Egyptology -Faculty of Archeology-Fayoum University

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The ancient Egyptian family was cohesive and respectful, and the wife had a great position within her house, as she was the mistress of the house, and she worked, economized, and disposed of her husband’s income, preparing food, raising children, grazing livestock, going to the markets, buying and selling, and going out to the field to help her husband in sowing and harvesting. These roles helped to form an independent, coherent and successful family whose foundation and building is a successful and rational wife, which is what the sayings of the sages in ancient Egypt portrayed to put the rational wife in her family, a woman of her home, loyal to her husband, who enjoys his love and care, as the various scenes of daily life provide us with the image that expresses the sincerity of These links, there are scenes that depict the inner life in the house, and other scenes that depict the wife working with her husband in the field, and other scenes as she goes out with her husband on trips for pleasure and hunting, or scenes of the wife entertaining her husband, and others worshiping with him.

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