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THE MIDDLE CHAPEL
with an upright bunch of some succulent green stem.1 The objects un-
derneath, elsewhere colored pink or red, may be cakes. No help in inter-
pretation is gained from the superscription, "All manner of good and
pure food for Hathor, lady of carousal, and Osiris, lord of Eternity." A
vase in the lowest group, with tall stem and a cover imitating an in-
verted blue nymphaea lotus is particularly graceful.2
The similar scene on the north wall (Plate LII1) shows minor varia-
tions. There are two high lamps as well as two altars for the rites, and the
four bowls are replaced by ten kinds of oil, its specific name being written
above each. The inscriptions, on the other hand, reveal the important
fact that the officiant in this case is apparently not Puyemre, but a priest
who seeks to induce the gods to be propitious to his patron.3 "A pure of-
fering [daily?] to Anion-[Re, lord of Karnlak (?) for the sake of the health
of the owner of this tomb." "Presenting the meal of a god, offering
resinous oil, incense and pure fats to . . . and supplying (?)] the bra-
ziers4 [of Anion]. If he is satisfied therewith, let his ka be likewise. For
the sake of the health (?) of the owner of [this] tomb . . . ."5 The out-
ward direction of the act of worship is more appropriate to Anion-Re
than to Osiris and Hathor; but they might be considered as having
their seats in the necropolis outside.
On the other hand, the inward direction is fitting for the adjacent
representation of the meal of the dead and it always meets us in this
position in the tomb. On the north wall we have, however, an interven-
ing episode, which should have occupied the thickness of one of the
Details of the
scene
A companion
picture
Puyemre at
the table of
the gods
'Both the bowl of stems and the heap of cakes (?) are distinctive offerings to Hathor in her form
of the divine cow (Scheil, Tombeau de Raleserkasenb, Wall A, and Naville, Eleventh Dyn. Temple, I, Pis.
XXV, XXVII, and III, Pis. VII, 7; XIV, 7; XXVI, 5; XXX, i, 2; XXXI, 4. An actual bowl is per-
haps seen Ibid., Ill, PI. XXVI, 5.
2 Carried out in its proper colors in Tomb g3 (cloisonne work?). It may be observed that all these
stemmed vases are derived from stemless vases set on stands. Cf. Vol. I, pp. 73, 99. For vases without the
foot see Carnarvon and Carter, Explorations, p. 43; Davies and Gardiner, Theban Tombs Series, Vol. Ill, PI. IV.
3 The attitude is that of the sem-priest, and a slight indication on the edge of the fracture shows
that his free hand was duly gathering the skin about his loins.
4 It seems that ch can be determined either by the common lamp-bowl or by the stemmed stand of
burnt-offering.
6 For a parallel cf. Sethe, Urkunden IV, p. 977, where the offering is made for Thothmes III by
the deceased.
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with an upright bunch of some succulent green stem.1 The objects un-
derneath, elsewhere colored pink or red, may be cakes. No help in inter-
pretation is gained from the superscription, "All manner of good and
pure food for Hathor, lady of carousal, and Osiris, lord of Eternity." A
vase in the lowest group, with tall stem and a cover imitating an in-
verted blue nymphaea lotus is particularly graceful.2
The similar scene on the north wall (Plate LII1) shows minor varia-
tions. There are two high lamps as well as two altars for the rites, and the
four bowls are replaced by ten kinds of oil, its specific name being written
above each. The inscriptions, on the other hand, reveal the important
fact that the officiant in this case is apparently not Puyemre, but a priest
who seeks to induce the gods to be propitious to his patron.3 "A pure of-
fering [daily?] to Anion-[Re, lord of Karnlak (?) for the sake of the health
of the owner of this tomb." "Presenting the meal of a god, offering
resinous oil, incense and pure fats to . . . and supplying (?)] the bra-
ziers4 [of Anion]. If he is satisfied therewith, let his ka be likewise. For
the sake of the health (?) of the owner of [this] tomb . . . ."5 The out-
ward direction of the act of worship is more appropriate to Anion-Re
than to Osiris and Hathor; but they might be considered as having
their seats in the necropolis outside.
On the other hand, the inward direction is fitting for the adjacent
representation of the meal of the dead and it always meets us in this
position in the tomb. On the north wall we have, however, an interven-
ing episode, which should have occupied the thickness of one of the
Details of the
scene
A companion
picture
Puyemre at
the table of
the gods
'Both the bowl of stems and the heap of cakes (?) are distinctive offerings to Hathor in her form
of the divine cow (Scheil, Tombeau de Raleserkasenb, Wall A, and Naville, Eleventh Dyn. Temple, I, Pis.
XXV, XXVII, and III, Pis. VII, 7; XIV, 7; XXVI, 5; XXX, i, 2; XXXI, 4. An actual bowl is per-
haps seen Ibid., Ill, PI. XXVI, 5.
2 Carried out in its proper colors in Tomb g3 (cloisonne work?). It may be observed that all these
stemmed vases are derived from stemless vases set on stands. Cf. Vol. I, pp. 73, 99. For vases without the
foot see Carnarvon and Carter, Explorations, p. 43; Davies and Gardiner, Theban Tombs Series, Vol. Ill, PI. IV.
3 The attitude is that of the sem-priest, and a slight indication on the edge of the fracture shows
that his free hand was duly gathering the skin about his loins.
4 It seems that ch can be determined either by the common lamp-bowl or by the stemmed stand of
burnt-offering.
6 For a parallel cf. Sethe, Urkunden IV, p. 977, where the offering is made for Thothmes III by
the deceased.
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