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THE TOMB OF APY
The lost scenes which these fragments presuppose, on the principle
ex pede Herculem, may be distributed as follows:
(i) A ceremonial procession of the deified king, Amenhotep I, is
revealed in the group No. 23, where the seated king is being carried by
priests in a gilt palanquin, on the side of which his attendant lion is rep-
resented. He is protected also by the wings of a hawk perched behind
him, and the accompanying priests shadow him behind and before with
feathered fans.1 Probably his mother, Nofretari, was borne in state at
the same time, as there are extra sunshades and in No. i3 a black figure
is being censed. The scene may have included Nos. 8, i3, i4, 22, and
the attendants of No. 3o, if these do not belong to Plate XXVII or
XXVIII. A potsherd, No. 2/i, has a sketch in red ink, giving, no doubt,
the draft from which the group was drawn. Contemporary pictures of
the rite, quite parallel to this, survive in Tombs 19, 65, and elsewhere.
(2) Whether the foregoing rite can include another group of frag-
ments is doubtful, though Plate XVI would justify the addition of No.
/12. If not, a repetition of the scene of interment must be presumed,
to which Nos. 4, 6 (a catafalque on its bark and another shrine of some
sort), and perhaps Nos. 27, 36, 37 also would be referable. There ex-
isted several other shrines of various sizes and sorts, as Nos. 2, 3, 5, 10,
15-21 prove. They must come from one of these two ceremonies or
from Plates XXVIII, XXXVI. Tomb 2i5 shows a burial procession
which affords close parallels to several of our derelict fragments.
(3) Nos. 1,11,12 suggest two representations of a king in a pavilion
or shrine, or else two royal statues outside the pylons of a temple2; for
the scene of the royal reward is not likely to have been duplicated.
The supposed temple might be the goal of the procession of Amenhotep
I, No. 9 showing its starting point. If all the pieces cited under these
three sections could be referred to this one subject, the hypothesis
which places it on the north lunette would be more satisfactory; since,
even if the interment of Apy were added, these subjects would corre-
North
lunette.
The cult of
Amenhotep I
Burial rites
A royal
appearance
1 Cf. PL XVI and Prisse, UAH Egyptien, PI. 88.
2 Cf. Theban Tombs Series, III, PI. XIV.
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The lost scenes which these fragments presuppose, on the principle
ex pede Herculem, may be distributed as follows:
(i) A ceremonial procession of the deified king, Amenhotep I, is
revealed in the group No. 23, where the seated king is being carried by
priests in a gilt palanquin, on the side of which his attendant lion is rep-
resented. He is protected also by the wings of a hawk perched behind
him, and the accompanying priests shadow him behind and before with
feathered fans.1 Probably his mother, Nofretari, was borne in state at
the same time, as there are extra sunshades and in No. i3 a black figure
is being censed. The scene may have included Nos. 8, i3, i4, 22, and
the attendants of No. 3o, if these do not belong to Plate XXVII or
XXVIII. A potsherd, No. 2/i, has a sketch in red ink, giving, no doubt,
the draft from which the group was drawn. Contemporary pictures of
the rite, quite parallel to this, survive in Tombs 19, 65, and elsewhere.
(2) Whether the foregoing rite can include another group of frag-
ments is doubtful, though Plate XVI would justify the addition of No.
/12. If not, a repetition of the scene of interment must be presumed,
to which Nos. 4, 6 (a catafalque on its bark and another shrine of some
sort), and perhaps Nos. 27, 36, 37 also would be referable. There ex-
isted several other shrines of various sizes and sorts, as Nos. 2, 3, 5, 10,
15-21 prove. They must come from one of these two ceremonies or
from Plates XXVIII, XXXVI. Tomb 2i5 shows a burial procession
which affords close parallels to several of our derelict fragments.
(3) Nos. 1,11,12 suggest two representations of a king in a pavilion
or shrine, or else two royal statues outside the pylons of a temple2; for
the scene of the royal reward is not likely to have been duplicated.
The supposed temple might be the goal of the procession of Amenhotep
I, No. 9 showing its starting point. If all the pieces cited under these
three sections could be referred to this one subject, the hypothesis
which places it on the north lunette would be more satisfactory; since,
even if the interment of Apy were added, these subjects would corre-
North
lunette.
The cult of
Amenhotep I
Burial rites
A royal
appearance
1 Cf. PL XVI and Prisse, UAH Egyptien, PI. 88.
2 Cf. Theban Tombs Series, III, PI. XIV.
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