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A PAINTED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT WITH SCENE OF FOWLING IN THE PAPYRUS MARSHES
DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III (1386-1349 B.C.), FROM THEBES
The main register depicting the owner standing in a papyrus skiff, holding a boomerang in his raised left hand and three flapping birds in his right, opposite a boomerang felling a bird in the papyrus thicket, in the front of the skiff his kneeling wife is smelling lotus flowers, above the hieroglyphs read: "The Mistress of the House, Mutemwesket". In the above register the lower part of the deceased seated on a chair with lion-paw feet, underneath him sits an alert dog wearing a red coloured collar, at his feet a seated female, possibly his daughter, Hetepti (written above left), holding a papyrus flower and bud, in front a table of offerings comprising tall loaves of bread, and above a htp-offering table laden with covered baskets, haunches of meat and vegetables, to the left a jar of water entwined with a lotus stem, part of the feet of the priestly officiator at the funerary feast of the Dead, blue, green, red, white and black colour, framed
21¼ x 14½ in. (54 x 36.8 cm.)
DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III (1386-1349 B.C.), FROM THEBES
The main register depicting the owner standing in a papyrus skiff, holding a boomerang in his raised left hand and three flapping birds in his right, opposite a boomerang felling a bird in the papyrus thicket, in the front of the skiff his kneeling wife is smelling lotus flowers, above the hieroglyphs read: "The Mistress of the House, Mutemwesket". In the above register the lower part of the deceased seated on a chair with lion-paw feet, underneath him sits an alert dog wearing a red coloured collar, at his feet a seated female, possibly his daughter, Hetepti (written above left), holding a papyrus flower and bud, in front a table of offerings comprising tall loaves of bread, and above a htp-offering table laden with covered baskets, haunches of meat and vegetables, to the left a jar of water entwined with a lotus stem, part of the feet of the priestly officiator at the funerary feast of the Dead, blue, green, red, white and black colour, framed
21¼ x 14½ in. (54 x 36.8 cm.)
Provenance
Legredakis Colletion, 1949; purchased from Koutoulakis 1952.
Exhibited
Le Don du Nil, pp. 62-63, pl. 200, no. 200.