This painting is famous in many ways, incomplete wall for sure they destroy always a part while removing. again a story how it ended in BRITISCH MUSEUM. LIKE ALL STORYS TO JUSTIFY
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Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting representing Nebamun, standing in a small boat, fowling and fishing in the marshes, his wife stands behind and his daughter sits beneath, he holds a throw-stick in one hand and three decoy herons in the other, his cat is shown catching three of the numerous birds which have been startled from the papyrus-thicket, fish are shown beneath the water-line, lotus flowers with large and broad leaves grow in marsh to the right of the boat, bunch of lotuses hangs over his arm and another spray is held by his wife, the heads of the flowers are approximately triangular in shape, shown in profile with white petals framed by green and grey sepals, buds alternate regularly with open flowers, eight vertical registers of hieroglyphs remain.
18th Dynasty 1350BC
Excavated/Findspot: Tomb of Nebamun (Thebes)
Egypt: Luxor West Bank (Thebes): Tomb of Nebamun (Thebes)
Purchased from: Henry Salt 1821
After Napoleon, a lot of items remain without destination Like rosseta stone we never know reality
it belong in the tomb, whatever reason they give it's stolen. the owner from the tomb is dead, how can anyone claim this endless strem of deplaced artifacts..
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