Tag: False Doors
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ibrahim El Dessouki’s Doors and False Doors 5,, with Footnotes, #50
“False doors”, also known as “Ka doors”, as they allowed the Ka (an element of the “soul”) to pass through them, were common in the mortuary temples and tombs of ancient Egypt from around the Third Dynasty and temples of the New Kingdom. The false door was thought to be a threshold between the world…