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South
lunette.
A scene of
sport
Vaulted
ceiling.
The hospital-
ity of Nut
Merits of
the scene
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
spond admirably to the double narrative of Plates XXXVI, XXXVII
below the intervening band of text.
(4) Fragment No. 7 on Plate XL suggests that there was a repeti-
tion of the scene of fowling (Plate XXX), to which No. 5i may also
have belonged. The pieces grouped under No. 48 show a similar sub-
ject, but treated in a totally different style, being crude in color, rough
in form, and without outlines, whereas the goose on the prow of a fish-
ing skiff and the great papyrus heads come from a richly colored and
finely finished scene. If inadmissible on the vault, it must come from
another tomb. It will be noticed that it repeats the boat with swan
figurehead and the papyrus with entwined creepers of Plate XXX.
(5) Numerous fragments are referable to one, or more probably
two, episodes of the hospitality of Nut, goddess of the garden (Plate
XL, 2, and Nos. 5o, 53-57). Parallel pictures perfectly preserved1
enable us to reconstruct the scene, even in color, and see Apy sitting
against the bright foliage and fruit before the goddess, or kneeling at
the foot of the tree which is her home. The artist makes no concession
to pragmatists who might object that he had placed his hero at the bot-
tom of the pond, instead of on the nearer bank. It is still more aston-
ishing to find a turtle and a hippopotamus in the water.2
The representations here of both the date and dom palms are of
extreme interest as showing the artist's real interest in the forms and
color values of the trees, which he enhanced by setting them amongst
shrubs and clumps of large red poppies, evidently making of the whole
a panel of vivid, yet tempered, brightness. The dark maroon trunks of
the palms are jagged with the black stumps of the old branches, but at
the top those of last year are still fleshy and take on a pink, or, with
the ddm palm, a bluish flush. From these spring the great blue fronds
and the red-stemmed bunches of streaky yellow dates, whereas the dom
palm branches into two or three stems before it breaks out in slowly
unfolding dull green fans, relieved in this picture by masses of red nuts
frontispiece; Wreszinski, Atlas, Sheet in; Tomb 290. For the immersed figure cf. Tomb 6.
2 Perhaps No. 53 belongs to the scene of fowling. A pond on the vault of Tomb 210 contains a turtle
and a crocodile.
lunette.
A scene of
sport
Vaulted
ceiling.
The hospital-
ity of Nut
Merits of
the scene
TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
spond admirably to the double narrative of Plates XXXVI, XXXVII
below the intervening band of text.
(4) Fragment No. 7 on Plate XL suggests that there was a repeti-
tion of the scene of fowling (Plate XXX), to which No. 5i may also
have belonged. The pieces grouped under No. 48 show a similar sub-
ject, but treated in a totally different style, being crude in color, rough
in form, and without outlines, whereas the goose on the prow of a fish-
ing skiff and the great papyrus heads come from a richly colored and
finely finished scene. If inadmissible on the vault, it must come from
another tomb. It will be noticed that it repeats the boat with swan
figurehead and the papyrus with entwined creepers of Plate XXX.
(5) Numerous fragments are referable to one, or more probably
two, episodes of the hospitality of Nut, goddess of the garden (Plate
XL, 2, and Nos. 5o, 53-57). Parallel pictures perfectly preserved1
enable us to reconstruct the scene, even in color, and see Apy sitting
against the bright foliage and fruit before the goddess, or kneeling at
the foot of the tree which is her home. The artist makes no concession
to pragmatists who might object that he had placed his hero at the bot-
tom of the pond, instead of on the nearer bank. It is still more aston-
ishing to find a turtle and a hippopotamus in the water.2
The representations here of both the date and dom palms are of
extreme interest as showing the artist's real interest in the forms and
color values of the trees, which he enhanced by setting them amongst
shrubs and clumps of large red poppies, evidently making of the whole
a panel of vivid, yet tempered, brightness. The dark maroon trunks of
the palms are jagged with the black stumps of the old branches, but at
the top those of last year are still fleshy and take on a pink, or, with
the ddm palm, a bluish flush. From these spring the great blue fronds
and the red-stemmed bunches of streaky yellow dates, whereas the dom
palm branches into two or three stems before it breaks out in slowly
unfolding dull green fans, relieved in this picture by masses of red nuts
frontispiece; Wreszinski, Atlas, Sheet in; Tomb 290. For the immersed figure cf. Tomb 6.
2 Perhaps No. 53 belongs to the scene of fowling. A pond on the vault of Tomb 210 contains a turtle
and a crocodile.