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Newberry, Percy E.
Beni Hasan (Band 1) — London, 1893

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BBNI HASAN.

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Paintings

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Scenes

(cont.)

East side of pilaster. The paintings here can only with great difficulty be made out. At the
top of the wall is a line of painted hieroglyphs reading pp ^ ^ J O ^ (j (j

Below is a hunting scene, much mutilated.

^ □

East Wall. (PI. xlvii.) The paintings here also are much mutilated, and the fragmentary scenes
given on PI. xlvii. are all that can now be traced from them. Along the top of the wall, immediately
beneath a chaker frieze, is the following painted inscription :—

c3ed

The scenes below are arranged in six rows. The first three show wrestlers in different attitudes.
The bottom rows show soldiers attacking a fortress ; and an interesting group of foreigners (Libyan),
who are being led by an Egyptian superintendent, are figured at the south end of the fourth row (see
PI. xlvii. and PL xlv.).

South Wall. None of the paintings can be traced, though there are patches of colour here and there
and a painted inscription in small green hieroglyphs reading ^ fl\^j Q ljt

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ADDITIONS AND CORBECTIONS TO TOMB No. 14.
The above inscription, unfortunately not included in the Plate, contains several curious hieroglyphs. should
be a group of a man standing supporting a cynocephalus-ape by the fore-legs, erect and facing him. jj| is for the
usual determinative of Hathor wearing disk and horns, and holding 1 T a compound sign, a peculiar forked
object upon the sign . The oryx in the nome sign stands upon a mere liue.
 
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