The haunting painted wood box:Its discovered in the tomb of tutankhamun (reigned c 1334_1325 bc) a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty ancient egypt in the valley of the kings ( Egypt) which became famous for the wealth of treasure it contained . The tomb was discovered in November 4,1922 by Howard Carter ,
it’s about rituals and wars
A wooden box colored and decorated with colorful scenes representing various war and hunting scenes in a panoramic photograph.
The box was found in the waiting room in front of the burial room in Tutankhamun’s tomb. When it was found, it contained the king’s sandals, a robe, necklaces, a headrest, a belt, and ritual tools used in various rituals.
On top of the box is a semi-circular, arched cover, divided into two longitudinal panels, with the inscription
The two wars against Egypt’s enemies in the north and south.
The minute details and the ethnic characteristics that characterized Asians and Africans, along with the chaos that overwhelmed them, and their personalities that appeared in mixing without any order or order were evident on the sides of the small box make it a unique and unparalleled masterpiece in the ancient Egyptian art of recording battles and their iconography.
While an inscription on the back and front of the box, with a slight difference between the two inscriptions, represents Tutankhamun in the form of a double sphinx, facing each other.
