الفهرس 
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Abstract
The study consists of an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion. The study included forty-four scenes in which the tomb owner presented offerings to his relatives in Theban private tombs. Most of the scenes date back to the New Kingdom period. The seated position of the receiver in front of the standing tomb owner is almost the same in most scenes. In the first chapter, the study proved that the tomb owner represents himself in the world of the living, while his relatives are in the world of the dead. The second chapter studied the scenes of the offerings to the parents and brothers. It was proved that these offerings are parts of the funeral cult of the parents or brother who had no son. These scenes express the desire of the tomb owner to meet his parents and brothers in the other world, and to prove his piety before the divine community towards them. The presence of these scenes inside his tomb was explained simply by the fact that his grave is his special place in which he can freely express his love for others. The piety of the tomb owner towards the deceased parents was associated with the role of Horus who was responsible for reviving his father by reviving his name in human tongues. The son can revive his father’s name by writing it on monuments such as these scenes. The tomb owner offered in four scenes to one of his parents, and in three scenes he offered to his wife. In those seven scenes the receiver held a position related to the upbringing and breastfeeding of royal princes. The motives of those scenes were to show his relationship to the royal family and pride in the status of his father, mother or wife. on one scene, the tomb owner presented offerings to his son, the architect of his tomb, as a thanksgiving for the construction of his grave. The Third Chapter dealt with the scenes of tomb owner’s offerings to the ancestors. These scenes were interpreted as part of the ancestor cult that was practiced since the end of the Old Kingdom. These offerings were presented to please the blessed ancestors, these offering scenes were integral to the letters to the dead, through which the living asked for protection and support from their dead ancestors because of their supernatural abilities. On one scene, the tomb owner offered to a venerated person as a kind of ritual which is called (The cult of the excellent spirits of Ra), this cult was established for some venerated persons in Deir el-Medina. The fourth chapter deals with the study of special cases of offering scenes that represented the tomb owner offers to people who seem to have no kinship with him, such as mayors and viziers. On one scene, the tomb owner offered to the workers of his tomb to thank them for their work. The tomb owner offered different kinds of offering to his relatives to provide immortality, fertility, rebirth, divine power, knowledge, mercy, protection from evil, or peaceful life.