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Art and life in ancient Egypt
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Figures

Figure 1 Funerary offerings fragment (EA 37985) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 2 Part of funerary offerings fragment (EA 37985) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 3 Middle-left side of funerary offerings fragment (EA 37985) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 4 Funerary offerings fragment (EA 37985) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 5 Reconstruction drawing of the funerary offerings scene by C. Thorne and R. B. Parkinson © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 6 Banquet fragments (EA 37984, EA 37981, EA 37986) and other small fragments (H. 1538-9) © Trustees of the British Museum and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Figure 7 Two of the banquet fragments (EA 37984, EA 37981) © Trustees of the British Museum2.1: Two of the banquet fragments (EA 37984, EA 37981) ©Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 8 A part of the banquet fragment (EA 37984) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 9 A part of the banquet fragment (EA 37984) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 10 A part of the banquet fragment (EA 37984) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 11 Reconstruction drawing of banquet scene by C. Thorne and R. B. Parkinson with other small fragments (H. 1538-9) © Trustees of the British Museum. Other small fragments copyright Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Agricultural scene fragment (EA 37982) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 12 Agricultural scene fragment (EA 37982) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 13 Viewing the produce of the estates scene (EA 37979, EA 37978, EA 37976) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 14 Agricultural scene fragment (EA 37982) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 15 Offering bringers fragment (EA 37980) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 16 Reconstruction drawing of produce fragment by C. Thorne and R. B. Parkinson © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 17 A reconstruction of the wall with agricultural scenes, including fragments now in Berlin (ÄM 18529–31, 18539) Photographs by Jurgen Liepe; copyright The Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin. Drawing by R. B. Parkinson and Claire Thorne

Figure 18 Reconstruction drawing of bringers fragment by C. Thorne and R. B. Parkinson © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 19 Hunting in the marshes (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 20 The figure of Nebamun from the hunting fragment (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 21 Hunting in the marshes (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 22 A reconstruction of the hunting scene, including the de Benzion fragments, based on parallels such as the scene in the tomb-chapel of Nakht (Theban Tomb 52) Reconstruction drawing by C. Thorne and R. B. Parkinson.© Trustees of the British Museum. Photographs of other fragments courtesy of the Association Egyptologique Reine Elizabeth, Brussels  

Figure 23 ‘Garden of the west’ fragment (EA 37983) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 24 Top right of the fragment ‘Garden of the west’ (EA 37983) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 25 The fragments were cut from the walls of tomb-chapel (EA 37985) © Trustees of the British Museum Scenes 1-7 Funerary offerings (EA 37985) ©Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 26 A hieroglyphic caption from ‘Hunting in the marshes’ (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum.

Figure 27 Marcel Duchamp, Bottlerack, 1914/1964, galvanized iron, 66 cm x 37 cm. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art. Photo: The Israel Museum/Bridgeman Art Library. © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008. 

Figure 28 The Nebamun fragments as they were displayed in the twentieth century © Trustees of the British Museum

Figure 29 Various genres of paintings (public domain)

Figure 30 Various genres within the Nebamun wall paintings (EA 37978, EA 37979, EA 37983, EA 37985, EA 37986) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 31 Daily life depicted within the fragments (EA 37982, EA 37978, EA 37976) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 32 Animals depicted within the fragments (EA 37976, EA 37977, EA 37978, EA 37982, EA 37983) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 33 Exotic scenes from ‘The banquet’ fragment (EA 37986) © Trustees of the British Museum 

Figure 34 The Nebamun fragments as they were displayed in the twentieth century © Trustees of the British Museum

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