Davies, Norman de Garis: The tomb of two sculptors at Thebes (New York, 1925)

CONTENTS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS..........xi

CHAPTER I

THE TOMB AND ITS OWNERS.........i

The Egyptian tomb a private, not a common grave; even
wives and relatives have no rights in it; Egyptian terms for
relations by blood and marriage; the two men buried in the
tomb; the partition of the tomb between them; the claim of
each to ownership; the priority of Nebamun; Henetnofret the
connecting link; she appears to have married both men in turn;
objections to this hypothesis; the decoration of the tomb
possibly her act; but more likely to be Nebamun's; the second
marriage to be provisionally assumed; career and rank of the
Egyptian artist; families as schools of art; executants of the
tomb and their training; Henetnofret's parentage; the site of
the tomb; its form and features; previous publications and the
present enterprise; the date of the tomb; decorative features;
ceiling texts; ceiling patterns; results of our excavations . . 3

CHAPTER II

DESCRIPTION OF THE MURAL PICTURES.....25

The west reveal; the east reveal; significance of pictures of

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