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Si Amon and his son - Prevailing Greek influence Precautions in art work for dating purposes The royal insignia and empty cartouches of Si Amon The 21st Dynasty discussion In this illustration we are showing that the last ruler of the 21st Dynasty, Si Amon, was the same person whose tomb was found by Ahmed Fakhri at the Siwa Oasis who had arranged for the funeral of Peinuzem II. Leather canopy of the funeral tent of Peinuzem II. The leather canopy used by Si-Amon to put to rest Peinuzem II has the same style and motifs in its design as the tomb ceiling of Si-Amon showing that this Si-Amon was the same person who had laid Peinuzem II to his final resting place. The evidence also shows that he belongs into the early 3rd, not the 11th century BC. The tomb of Si Amon was discovered in 1940 in the Siwa Oasis. Ahmad Fakhri thought at the time that there were two Si-Amons not knowing revised chronology, one in the 11th and the other in the 3rd century BC. [H.W. Villiers-Stuart, `Egypt after the War'; Ahmad Fakhri, `Siwa Oasis', Fig. 79] Compare these vultures from the tomb of Peinuzem II with the vultures in the tomb ceiling of Si Amon to realize they are stylistically the same and probably were painted by the same artist. At any rate it is very unlikely that artists 800 years apart would produce such similar work. A true difference in vulture paintings of 800 years would be between artists of the Hyksos period, or perhaps Ahmose of the 18th Dynasty, with these of Si-Amon, to help us understand how such art would have changed. |
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