AHIS281 Chapter 1: ESSAY-READINGS
12 Oct 2018
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On the composition and arrangement of daily life scenes in old. The key gure in this analysis is the person of the tomb owner and his responsibility as composer of the decoration in his own funerary monument. Traditionally, several key indicators for the tomb owner"s status have been accepted, including the position of the tomb in the cemetery, the total area the tomb occupied, its architectural layout, decoration, equipment, and the burial ceremony. The tomb functions as a medium to display the status of the owner during his lifetime. After death, it commemorates the status achieved by the deceased tomb owner. This seems to imply that personal choice was rather restricted, which in turn suggests the existence of certain rules to which the composer (either the tomb owner or the artist executing the design) had to conform. Even though there appears to have been a limitless number of possibilities, the content and number of subjects was restricted and regulated.
