In order to understand this burial chamber we have to know about the concept of death to the ancient Egyptian. Death was considered as an intermediate period between life on earth and the continuous life in the afterlife after the reunion of the soul and the body. Thus the deceased have to be secured in order to survive the journey and continue to live as he used to on earth before death. Real food and drinks were supplied to him on daily basis by his son and a certain priest. In spite of that this food was never touched the tradition continued believing that the deceased benefited from it but in a different way. Later they found out that this tradition was a tiresome effort on daily basis for the son they changed it and offered the food in front of a statue in the mortuary temple. This daily practice could be and missed by the priest so they left the daily duty and enlisted the offerings over the walls of the tombs accompanied by a formula known as the Htp di nswt formula which through utterance could magically change the list into real stuff.

The formula took the title of the king because he was considered the sole owner properties on earth thus all offerings were given by him. Accordingly, after death the formula should be titled after a god related to the afterlife. Usually it was god Osiris and god Anubis.

The burial chamber:

It belongs to a man called dSry who lived in the 5th dynasty. It was found in Saqqara containing a wooden sarcophagus. The chamber is made out of limestone. On walls there are scenes of offerings which have a double function. The first function includes the real or materialistic meaning of the substance and the other function includes the symbolic meaning of the substance because each substance had a certain symbolic meaning.

On the right side of the chamber we have representations of three types of offering table full of offering such as the head of a cow, the geese, the ribs, the meat, the onion and the liquid.

The symbolic meaning of each item:

On the left side there is the scene of the seven sacred oils which are essential for the deceased in the afterlife as they were used in the purification and the mummification rituals. The jars are titled but we know nothing about the contents. There are 21 jars; three for each kind. After that there is a representation of mnat collar followed by the Sndyt then there are four bags of linen. All scenes are vividly colored.

The formula:

The top:

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An offering which the king give as may the king be kind and give may god anubis be kind and give who is upon his mountain who is inside his embalming place almighty lord of the sacred land offerings of bread and beer to him the sole companion dSry

The right side:

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The sole companion the lector priest the honored or the nobleman dSry

The left side:

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