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FEASTING AND FARMING
beats time and sings, or else plays the harp; a third is, no doubt, fur-
nished with a lute; the fourth dances and beats out the measure on
resonant sticks.1 The men do not seem much more at their ease than
the women, though each has a beer-jar set before him on its little stand.
In the middle row they are placed in couples, and are served with wine
by butlers; beer and a simple ration of bread and onions being set
between the pairs on a low table.
The upper scene of the east wall (south side) may perhaps also be
cited as concerned only with the private life of Puyemre. It is, how-
ever, almost a total wreck. There remains nothing in either of the de-
scriptive notes at the south end, except the names of Puyemre and
Senseneb; but our excavations have supplied the addition "surveying
the bounty ... of his duck-pond' (Plate XXI, group No. i).2 From
the same source came a number of fragments of garden trees surrounding
a pond, and these, when put together upon the model of similar scenes,
could not well be placed on any other wall (No. 5). A few broken figures
from the two upper registers show men bringing such gifts as a pond
would yield, the foremost of whom has the designation "the servant-in-
charge, . . . Herihotput (?)" (No. 2). Farther to the left the heads of
three others are in situ near the ceiling. Fragments of the lowest regis-
ter, too, still adhere to the wall (Nos. 6 and 7). Thus the upper part of
the wall to the right of the scene of offering described on p. 37 com-
prised (1) a cattleyard, from which a group of oxen under the charge
of three farm bailiffs is preserved,3 a figure of Puyemre facing this
scene, and a lost column of dividing text; (2) the feet of one of the
servants (No. 7) making presentation to a lost figure of Puyemre (?),
a garden (No. 5) behind him, and an intervening column of text; (3)
'For these sticks, used in burial ceremonial, see Naville, Deir el Bahari, PI. XC; my Five Theban
Tombs, PI. II, and Tomb of Antefoker, PI. XXI; Virey, Tomb of Rekhmara, PI. XXV; Tombs 53, 125; Montet,
Recueil XXXV, p. 119 and Caillaud, Arts et Metiers, PI. 35. These wands, when found in tombs, are
probably sometimes mistaken for throw-sticks. Perhaps they take the place of the magical (ivory) wands,
but in PI. XLVI may be fire-kindlers.
2 It is probable, but not necessary, that the first column extended to the base line. Passages like
Breasted, A.R., §§ 567, 571, show that after all we may be dealing with a garden and farm of Amon.
3 Fragment 6. The asterisk and the letter a show the connection with Number 7 and also the posi-
tion relative to the scene below (PI. XXII).
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The banquet-
ing scene
Puyemre's
farm and
garden
beats time and sings, or else plays the harp; a third is, no doubt, fur-
nished with a lute; the fourth dances and beats out the measure on
resonant sticks.1 The men do not seem much more at their ease than
the women, though each has a beer-jar set before him on its little stand.
In the middle row they are placed in couples, and are served with wine
by butlers; beer and a simple ration of bread and onions being set
between the pairs on a low table.
The upper scene of the east wall (south side) may perhaps also be
cited as concerned only with the private life of Puyemre. It is, how-
ever, almost a total wreck. There remains nothing in either of the de-
scriptive notes at the south end, except the names of Puyemre and
Senseneb; but our excavations have supplied the addition "surveying
the bounty ... of his duck-pond' (Plate XXI, group No. i).2 From
the same source came a number of fragments of garden trees surrounding
a pond, and these, when put together upon the model of similar scenes,
could not well be placed on any other wall (No. 5). A few broken figures
from the two upper registers show men bringing such gifts as a pond
would yield, the foremost of whom has the designation "the servant-in-
charge, . . . Herihotput (?)" (No. 2). Farther to the left the heads of
three others are in situ near the ceiling. Fragments of the lowest regis-
ter, too, still adhere to the wall (Nos. 6 and 7). Thus the upper part of
the wall to the right of the scene of offering described on p. 37 com-
prised (1) a cattleyard, from which a group of oxen under the charge
of three farm bailiffs is preserved,3 a figure of Puyemre facing this
scene, and a lost column of dividing text; (2) the feet of one of the
servants (No. 7) making presentation to a lost figure of Puyemre (?),
a garden (No. 5) behind him, and an intervening column of text; (3)
'For these sticks, used in burial ceremonial, see Naville, Deir el Bahari, PI. XC; my Five Theban
Tombs, PI. II, and Tomb of Antefoker, PI. XXI; Virey, Tomb of Rekhmara, PI. XXV; Tombs 53, 125; Montet,
Recueil XXXV, p. 119 and Caillaud, Arts et Metiers, PI. 35. These wands, when found in tombs, are
probably sometimes mistaken for throw-sticks. Perhaps they take the place of the magical (ivory) wands,
but in PI. XLVI may be fire-kindlers.
2 It is probable, but not necessary, that the first column extended to the base line. Passages like
Breasted, A.R., §§ 567, 571, show that after all we may be dealing with a garden and farm of Amon.
3 Fragment 6. The asterisk and the letter a show the connection with Number 7 and also the posi-
tion relative to the scene below (PI. XXII).
55
The banquet-
ing scene
Puyemre's
farm and
garden