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LABOR IN THE FIELDS
eight is furnished with two green besoms with which to keep the pile Winnowing
together; each of the others has two of those wooden winnowing
FIGURE 11
DETAIL FROM THE TOMR OF JOSERKERASONR (No. 38)
scoops which are in all our museums. A pair of these when set edge to
edge form a shovel in which the grain is lifted; when they are parted,
it falls down between them and the breeze carries
the white chaff aside. This and the group below,
where two men scoop up the grain very ineffectively
in wooden measures to the accompaniment of the
(unrecorded) remarks of an overseer, are common
episodes in agricultural scenes.
What is uncommon, however, are the objects
at the top of the brown semicircle (i.e. the farther
edge of the floor), which are only known in this
and its derived (?) scenes in Tombs 38 and 57.
Here they appear as a red vase and over it a care-
lessly drawn object which has been black in color
and in shape most resembles the hieroglyphic form
of the crescent moon.1 That what is depicted here
is an offering laid before a deity is to be concluded
from various pictures of the harvest field where the
deity, when made visible, is the goddess Ernutet,
The deity of
harvest
FIGURE 12
DETAIL FROM THE TOMR
OF KHAEMHET (No. 57)
irrhus -^-. The moon itself is generally depicted with the concave side of the crescent uppermost
and is colored yellow. The black tint used here might indicate the shadowed orb out of which the new
moon is born as an invisible streak of light, but it might also be due to a confusion with the somewhat
similar word-sign for the black pod of the carob.
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eight is furnished with two green besoms with which to keep the pile Winnowing
together; each of the others has two of those wooden winnowing
FIGURE 11
DETAIL FROM THE TOMR OF JOSERKERASONR (No. 38)
scoops which are in all our museums. A pair of these when set edge to
edge form a shovel in which the grain is lifted; when they are parted,
it falls down between them and the breeze carries
the white chaff aside. This and the group below,
where two men scoop up the grain very ineffectively
in wooden measures to the accompaniment of the
(unrecorded) remarks of an overseer, are common
episodes in agricultural scenes.
What is uncommon, however, are the objects
at the top of the brown semicircle (i.e. the farther
edge of the floor), which are only known in this
and its derived (?) scenes in Tombs 38 and 57.
Here they appear as a red vase and over it a care-
lessly drawn object which has been black in color
and in shape most resembles the hieroglyphic form
of the crescent moon.1 That what is depicted here
is an offering laid before a deity is to be concluded
from various pictures of the harvest field where the
deity, when made visible, is the goddess Ernutet,
The deity of
harvest
FIGURE 12
DETAIL FROM THE TOMR
OF KHAEMHET (No. 57)
irrhus -^-. The moon itself is generally depicted with the concave side of the crescent uppermost
and is colored yellow. The black tint used here might indicate the shadowed orb out of which the new
moon is born as an invisible streak of light, but it might also be due to a confusion with the somewhat
similar word-sign for the black pod of the carob.
63