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This article is dedicated to the publication of a statue of nonroyal Wrirny, who served as the sun temple priest for both King Userkaf and Neferirkare during the Fifth Dynasty. He was a great high official whose Userkaf permitted him to carve two tombs, one of them at Saqqara D20 and the other at Sheikh Said No. 25. He subsequently became the overseer of both kings Userkaf and Neferirkare's solar temples. Wrirny had worked as supervisor of the king's treasury in addition to his job as priest of the solar-temple, according to some inscription on the front of his right leg. Mariette discovered the statue in tomb D20 in Saqqara necropolis and he had pointed out that Wrirny had had four statues but only two are known: one in standing stance, which the authors will publish, and the other in EG CG172. All of them are sculpted between the mid-half and end of the Fifth Dynasty. All of these statutes will aid authors in publishing and clarifying the statue style that was followed toward the end of the Fifth Dynasty by non-royal artists. The authors will publish this statue based on the style of hair wig, kilt, and facial features and at the end, it may be deduced that this statue of Wrirny dates from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BC).

According to ancient Egyptian beliefs, the false door is a part of funerary furniture. It is served as an offering's stela; it is placed on the west wall in the tomb, which netherworlds exist. The author will introduce new interpretations for two unpublished false doors in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo according to epithets and titles of deceased, also through architectural and decoration features. A descriptive approach will be used to explain the scenes on two false doors and then picture analyses, finally, the philology approach also is used to linguistic study, and texts are translated. This paper aims to republish and shed light on two limestones false doors discovered at the north of Saqqara that dated back to the Fifth Dynasty, the paper aims to narrow down the dating of these doors and explore new interpretations and what the doors might say about the social standing of their deceased. It can be concluded that the two false doors which are dated back to Fifth Dynasty, but not for the same period; kA=I pw PtH false door dated back to the beginning of fifth Dynasty and Nykawre's false door dated back to end of fifth Dynasty; the authors set this date based on their architectural and textual features reflected social and religious aspects to non-royal Egyptian elite during the Old Kingdom.

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The ancient Egyptians had paid attention to death and resurrection. They have faced many difficulties, including how they will preserve the body of the deceased, whether through embalming or a safe place for burial, providing the deceased with protection to arrive the netherworlds easily. This paper aims to study and date an unpublished anthropoid wooden coffin of Padiatum, who lived during Late Period; it is now preserved at Beni-Suief museum under registration Num 1245. This anthropoid coffin was found during excavation in Sediment el-Gabal. The authors are the first people who will deal with dating this coffin in an academic method through iconography and text study. The dating of the coffin has not been identified previously. So, the authors could date this anthropoid wooden coffin based on decorations and texts analyses; the authors will introduce more evidence to prove the argument dating of this anthropoid coffin. Neither surveying nor comparing the decoration and scenes techniques have been done by authors. The paper, then, compared these decoration features on the coffins which are extracted from sediment el-Gabal and results are discussed. This paper is developed using analytical and comparative approaches based on document and decorations analyses. Moreover, major similarities and differences among decorations on this coffin and other techniques have been resulted. The paper concluded that this coffin with these decoration patterns was executed through Late period of Egypt. The level of implementation of these decorations and inscriptions are typical to the period of end of Late Period. It can approximately be dated from 26 th to 30 th Dynasty.