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The moulding
box
The
products
as temple
furniture
The carpen-
ters
THE ESTATES AND WORKSHOPS OF AMON
spout, the stream of metal can be accurately directed into one of the
three vents of a moulding box set upon the ground. The remark of one
of the pair is lost to us, perhaps by erasure (Plate XXVI).1
If one compares the manufactures shown here with the objects dedi-
cated to the service of Amon of Karnak on Plate XXXVIII, a considera-
ble correspondence will be observed.2 We see again the two large vases,
one of silver, one of gold (?), with bull's head covers; the two stands;
the lustration and libation vases; the censing spoons; the hawk's-head
collar and pendant. The similarity of the articles, though not extraor-
dinary, and the fact that the metal work at least is specially adapted to
temple ceremonial, makes it likely that these workshops are busy with
the king's order for the temple of Karnak, even if they are not actually
part of the temple organization. The two alternatives seem indeed re-
concilable, since the scene in Tomb 86 is described as "the inspection of
the workshop of the laborers of the temple of Amon and the work of
the artificers . . . which His Majesty . . . made ... for his father
Amon."3 Did the king, then, simply give the materials to be made up
by the temple artificers, and were the temple workshops the only estab-
lishments capable of turning out such productions? Such questions are
difficult to answer in direct proportion to their interest.
III. Carpenters, Jewelers, and Stone-workers. The carpenter's
department is now reached and is dismissed in two episodes (Plate XXVI).
In one we see the making of a shrine. Very likely it was shown by its
painted line to have sides of pierced work, formed by J and | amu-
lets in rows;4 one of which the cabinet-maker is here shaping on a block,
after finishing two pairs and a casket. The next scene will be appre-
ciated at once by those who have examined any broad plank of Egyptian
origin and found it to be a marvelous piece of economy, necessitated b\
*It began with 0^^. The moulding box is seen again in Tomb 86 (Wreszinski, Atlas, 5q), where
it has no less than eleven orifices; in Tomb ioo, where it has seventeen; at Karnak where it has fifteen
(Prisse, UAH Egyptien II, 55); perhaps also in Newberry, Beni Hasan I, PL XI. As in most cases plates
are being cast for a bronze door, the same is probably taking place here.
2 The engraver is perhaps adding the dedication of the king which is shown in PI. XXXVIII. Other
products, such as the bronze doors, may have been lost to us with the scene mentioned on p. 102.
3 It seems to be the same in the tomb of Rekhmire (Newberry, Rekhmara, p. 36), and probably
also in that of Mery (Tomb g5), since he was high priest of Amon. 4 Thus in Tombs 75, 100, 181.
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box
The
products
as temple
furniture
The carpen-
ters
THE ESTATES AND WORKSHOPS OF AMON
spout, the stream of metal can be accurately directed into one of the
three vents of a moulding box set upon the ground. The remark of one
of the pair is lost to us, perhaps by erasure (Plate XXVI).1
If one compares the manufactures shown here with the objects dedi-
cated to the service of Amon of Karnak on Plate XXXVIII, a considera-
ble correspondence will be observed.2 We see again the two large vases,
one of silver, one of gold (?), with bull's head covers; the two stands;
the lustration and libation vases; the censing spoons; the hawk's-head
collar and pendant. The similarity of the articles, though not extraor-
dinary, and the fact that the metal work at least is specially adapted to
temple ceremonial, makes it likely that these workshops are busy with
the king's order for the temple of Karnak, even if they are not actually
part of the temple organization. The two alternatives seem indeed re-
concilable, since the scene in Tomb 86 is described as "the inspection of
the workshop of the laborers of the temple of Amon and the work of
the artificers . . . which His Majesty . . . made ... for his father
Amon."3 Did the king, then, simply give the materials to be made up
by the temple artificers, and were the temple workshops the only estab-
lishments capable of turning out such productions? Such questions are
difficult to answer in direct proportion to their interest.
III. Carpenters, Jewelers, and Stone-workers. The carpenter's
department is now reached and is dismissed in two episodes (Plate XXVI).
In one we see the making of a shrine. Very likely it was shown by its
painted line to have sides of pierced work, formed by J and | amu-
lets in rows;4 one of which the cabinet-maker is here shaping on a block,
after finishing two pairs and a casket. The next scene will be appre-
ciated at once by those who have examined any broad plank of Egyptian
origin and found it to be a marvelous piece of economy, necessitated b\
*It began with 0^^. The moulding box is seen again in Tomb 86 (Wreszinski, Atlas, 5q), where
it has no less than eleven orifices; in Tomb ioo, where it has seventeen; at Karnak where it has fifteen
(Prisse, UAH Egyptien II, 55); perhaps also in Newberry, Beni Hasan I, PL XI. As in most cases plates
are being cast for a bronze door, the same is probably taking place here.
2 The engraver is perhaps adding the dedication of the king which is shown in PI. XXXVIII. Other
products, such as the bronze doors, may have been lost to us with the scene mentioned on p. 102.
3 It seems to be the same in the tomb of Rekhmire (Newberry, Rekhmara, p. 36), and probably
also in that of Mery (Tomb g5), since he was high priest of Amon. 4 Thus in Tombs 75, 100, 181.
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