Depictions of the natural world are an intrinsic feature of Egyptian visual culture, with the vast array of imagery documenting animals a testimony to the fundamental role they played. Despite the significance of animals in Egypt, an anthropocentric bias still exists in research on the methods used by practitioners during initial scene composition. To help bridge the divide, the author herein undertook an investigation to determine if proportional guides were in place when rendering animal figures in ancient Egyptian elite tomb imagery of the Old and Middle Kingdoms. A notable outcome of the proportional analysis was the identification of two distinct body-types for domestic cattle (Bos taurus taurus). The aim of the current paper is to further examine these proportional differences to explore if variations in physique (namely the distance between the chest floor and withers) were rendered by Egyptian practitioners to reflect the conditions in which they appeared by considering two overarching factors: (1) biological factors and (2) contextual factors. As such, the study will employ proportional analysis to challenge the prevailing perspective of a deregulated approach when illustrating fauna in elite tomb imagery, highlighting the significance of animals within ancient Egypt.

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适合这份工作：埃及中古王国贵族陵墓中牛的比例和写照

对自然世界的描述是埃及视觉文化的内在特征，大量记录动物的图像证明了它们所发挥的基本作用。尽管动物在埃及具有重要意义，但对从业人员在初始场景构图过程中使用的方法的研究仍然存在以人类为中心的偏见。为了帮助弥合鸿沟，本文作者进行了一项调查，以确定在古埃及和中古王国的精英墓葬墓葬图像中绘制动物形象时，比例引导是否到位。比例分析的显着结果是鉴定了家牛的两种不同体型（Bos taurus taurus）。本文的目的是进一步研究这些比例差异，以探讨埃及从业人员是否通过考虑两个总体因素来反映体形变化（即胸底与肩甲之间的距离）以反映它们的出现情况： 1）生物学因素和（2）背景因素。因此，这项研究将采用比例分析的方法来挑战精英墓葬图像中的动物群，以此来挑战一种放松管制的方法的普遍观点，从而突出动物在古埃及地区的重要性。