A GESSO-PAINTED MUD WALL PAINTING FROM THE TOMB OF SEBEKHOTEP, showing part of two elaborate 'gold' and 'silver' animal and bird vessels, painted yellow with a red outline and applied 'silver' detail. To the right stands a large carinated footed vessel with fluted body and spiral hook band around the shoulder, above the everted rim the heads of ducks and stems emerge, to the left are two flaring vessels with gazelle-headed protomes, emerging duck heads and, from the upper vessel, four rosette stems, to the left are part of nine hieratic lines in ink of a visitor's graffito referring to the "nest" vessel, Dynasty XVIII, circa 1410 B.C., from Thebes