Ancient Egyptians employed three calendrical systems--civil (365 days), natural (environmental phenomena) and lunar--yet the relationship between administrative time-reckoning and ecological awareness in funerary iconography merits closer examination. Whilst elites employed the civil calendar for administration, subsistence practitioners followed natural seasonal rhythms, such as Nile inundation, animal reproduction and bird migration. This study investigates whether Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom (27th-18th century BCE) funerary decorations depicting avian fauna reflect accurate seasonal temporality or idealised scenes separated from natural cycles.
The research analyses avian iconography in funerary contexts, examining whether portrayed bird species could have seasonally coexisted and comparing these with depicted subsistence activities. It evaluates how tomb owners and artisans conceptualised and incorporated natural temporal patterns into commemorative spaces.
The findings address whether representations adhered to conceptual (aspektivisch) conventions excluding random factors, thereby treating seasonality as incidental rather than intentional. This contributes to understanding the intersection of ecological knowledge, temporal consciousness and artistic convention in funerary contexts from ancient Egypt.
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