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DESCRIPTION OF THE MURAL PICTURES
texts with which the tomb was also furnished, the dead man could be
his own household priest. A colored cloth thrown over each yoke may
be a table-cloth.1 More permanent gifts are a set of staves, a cushioned
chair (blotted out again for some reason), sandals, a scribe's red leather
writing case, an inlaid casket, a scribe's palette and tablet, two shawabti
boxes, a bed with mattress and head-rest, a light cane, another casket,
canes, a spare head-rest, and four cruses of ointment on a stand. Finally
a child trudges along, carrying in his hand a pair of sandals and on his
head a little table spread with the tools of the dead sculptor, whether
because they might not be used again, or to enable him to carry on a
profession without which he was lost, as we say with a careless truth
which the Egyptian could appreciate much more keenly. We can dis-
tinguish an adze, a saw, three fine graving chisels, a bow-drill, and some
other instrument (Plate XXIV). Seven "companions" bring up the
rear, wearing the mantle and short skirt.
In the lower register of Plate XIX we are transported to the river
bank, the tomb being introduced again merely as a caption to the scene.2
It is impossible to decide whether the two arbors are set up before the
tomb or on the shore; probably the former, and in that case we must sup-
ply in imagination a long spatial gap between them and the three ladies
of the family, attended by mourning women, who wait on the bank to
receive the official representatives, the bearers of furniture, the guests,
and, finally, the dead himself. They are "his (Apuki'sP) sisters," Asi,
Mutnofret, and Hentaneb. The presence of a high official of the necrop-
olis lends administrative sanction to the proceedings. He is "President
of the West (?) and controller of the temenos on the west of Thebes."
An injury to the wall prevents us from assigning their exact rank and
number to the passengers in the first boat, "the elder . . . the priest
. . . the temple-father . . . the web-priest . . . the head artisans of
the temple of Amon in Ast-josret, who say, '0 ferrymen, ye (?) are
'Table covers, usually white, are also red or blue (Davies, El Amarna, I, PI. XXIII). The loaves
are seen lying within such caskets (ibid, III, Pis. V, VII). For the caskets see Tombs 55, 85, 172, and else-
where.
1 Tomb 333 seems to afford a second contemporary instance of a depicted tomb.
4o
The presen-
tation of
burial gifts
Passage of
the river
by officials
and guests
texts with which the tomb was also furnished, the dead man could be
his own household priest. A colored cloth thrown over each yoke may
be a table-cloth.1 More permanent gifts are a set of staves, a cushioned
chair (blotted out again for some reason), sandals, a scribe's red leather
writing case, an inlaid casket, a scribe's palette and tablet, two shawabti
boxes, a bed with mattress and head-rest, a light cane, another casket,
canes, a spare head-rest, and four cruses of ointment on a stand. Finally
a child trudges along, carrying in his hand a pair of sandals and on his
head a little table spread with the tools of the dead sculptor, whether
because they might not be used again, or to enable him to carry on a
profession without which he was lost, as we say with a careless truth
which the Egyptian could appreciate much more keenly. We can dis-
tinguish an adze, a saw, three fine graving chisels, a bow-drill, and some
other instrument (Plate XXIV). Seven "companions" bring up the
rear, wearing the mantle and short skirt.
In the lower register of Plate XIX we are transported to the river
bank, the tomb being introduced again merely as a caption to the scene.2
It is impossible to decide whether the two arbors are set up before the
tomb or on the shore; probably the former, and in that case we must sup-
ply in imagination a long spatial gap between them and the three ladies
of the family, attended by mourning women, who wait on the bank to
receive the official representatives, the bearers of furniture, the guests,
and, finally, the dead himself. They are "his (Apuki'sP) sisters," Asi,
Mutnofret, and Hentaneb. The presence of a high official of the necrop-
olis lends administrative sanction to the proceedings. He is "President
of the West (?) and controller of the temenos on the west of Thebes."
An injury to the wall prevents us from assigning their exact rank and
number to the passengers in the first boat, "the elder . . . the priest
. . . the temple-father . . . the web-priest . . . the head artisans of
the temple of Amon in Ast-josret, who say, '0 ferrymen, ye (?) are
'Table covers, usually white, are also red or blue (Davies, El Amarna, I, PI. XXIII). The loaves
are seen lying within such caskets (ibid, III, Pis. V, VII). For the caskets see Tombs 55, 85, 172, and else-
where.
1 Tomb 333 seems to afford a second contemporary instance of a depicted tomb.
4o
The presen-
tation of
burial gifts
Passage of
the river
by officials
and guests