Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

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by modern travellers, are of a very inferior style,
and would never have obtained similar encomiums
from any one who had examined the private tombs
in the mountain of Qoorneh. They are, however,
by no means devoid of interest.

In the first line of the agricultural scene, on the
western wall, the peasants are employed in plough-
ing- and sowing ; and from the car which is seen in
the field, we are to infer that the owner of the land
(who is also the individual of the tomb) has come
to overlook them at their work. In the second
line they reap wheat, barley, and doora: the dis-
tinction being pointed out by their respective
heights. In the third is the carrying, and tritura,
or treading out the ear, which was generally per-
formed throughout Egypt by means of oxen; and
the winnowing, measuring, and housing the grain.
But the doora or sorghum was not submitted to
the same process as the wheat and barley, nor was
it reaped by the sickle; but after having been
plucked up by the roots, was bound up in sheaves,
and carried to the area, where, by means of a
wooden beam, whose upper extremity was furnished
with three or four prongs, the grain was stripped from
the stalks which they forcibly drew through them.

Below are the cattle, asses, pigs, and goats be-
longing to the deceased, which are brought to be
numbered and registered by his scribes. In an-
other part they weigh the gold, his property ; and