{"id":155057,"date":"2023-01-10T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-amazing-sarcophagus-of-the-vizier-gemenefhorbak"},"modified":"2023-01-10T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:23:41","slug":"the-amazing-sarcophagus-of-the-vizier-gemenefhorbak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-amazing-sarcophagus-of-the-vizier-gemenefhorbak","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Sarcophagus of the Vizier Gemenefhorbak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-amazing-sarcophagus-of-the-vizier-gemenefhorbak3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gemenefherbak was a <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaleve.com\/chancellor-in-ancient-egypt\/\">vizier<\/a>. As such, he was responsible for justice, a function symbolized by the pendant picturing the goddess <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaleve.com\/goddess-maat-laws\/\">Maat<\/a> on his collar.<\/p>\n<p>The chest is protected by a winged scarab, a personification of the reborn morning sun. On the back of the Sarcophagus, the deceased is shown twice worshiping the <a href=\"https:\/\/historicaleve.com\/sacred-symbol-djed-pillar\/\">Djed-Pillar<\/a>, a symbol of Osiris, lord of the underworld.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the size of the object and the hardness of the stone, the sculptors express all their virtuosity in the polish of surfaces and in a sophistication of detail that is typical for the 26th Dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemenefherbak was a vizier. As such, he was responsible for justice, a function symbolized by the pendant picturing the goddess Maat on his collar. The chest is protected by a winged scarab, a personification of the reborn morning sun. On the back of the Sarcophagus, the deceased is shown twice worshiping the Djed-Pillar, a symbol [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}