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Figure 1 Nebamun hunting in the marshes (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 2 Hieroglyphs from the scene of hunting in the marshes, ‘Taking enjoyment, seeing good things in the place of eternity’ (EA 37977) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 3 The Temple of Amun Photograph courtesy of R. B. Parkinson
Figure 4 Hieroglyphs of Nebamun’s title and name, ‘Scribe and Grain-accountant of Amun, Nebamun’ © Trustees of the British Museum, Drawing by R. B. Parkinson
Figure 5 Offering bringers with sheaves of grain (EA 37980) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 6 A table piled with food at banquet (EA 37986) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 7 Domenico di Michelino, Dante and his Poem, 1465, fresco, Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
Figure 8 Continuation of an idealised life (EA 37986) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 9 The funeral procession and burial of the scribe Ani from his Book of the Dead (EA 10470.5 © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 10 Oval fruit-basket of woven palm fibre with lid; contains figs and dates (EA 5396) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 11 Wooden cosmetic-spoon (EA 5954) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 12 Ivory scribal palette bearing rough Hieratic jottings in black ink (EA 5524) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 13 The west bank escarpment looking towards the Valley of the Queens courtesy of R B Parkinson
Figure 14 A view of the Theban peak Courtesy of R. B. Parkinson
Figure 15 A view of Deir el-Bahri Courtesy of R. B. Parkinson
Figure 16 Part of Dra Abu el-Naga Courtesy of R. B. Parkinson
Figure 17 A reconstruction drawing of the outer parts of a Theban tomb-chapel, showing the courtyard and facade decorated with funerary cones Drawing by Claire Thorne after Kampp, Die Thebanische Nekropole (Mainz 1996), Fig. 67. © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 18 Impression of tomb-chapel layout A reconstruction by R. B. Parkinson. From Meredith Hooper, The Tomb of Nebamun: Explore an Ancient Egyptian Tomb (London 2008), 10-11
Figure 19 Plan and elevation of the Eighteenth Dynasty tomb-chapel of Nakht Drawing by Claire Thorne after Norman Davies, The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes (New York 1917), 36. © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 20 Ostracon depicting a tomb (5886) Courtesy of The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester
Figure 21 Long hall of Theban Tomb-chapel 147 Courtesy of Boyo Ockinga, Macquarie University, Australia
Figure 22 Statue of a couple from a Theban tomb-chapel (EA 2301) © Trustees of the British Museum
Figure 23 One of the graffiti From R. B. Parkinson, Voices From Ancient Egypt (London 1991), p. 148.
Figure 24 The eternal life of a tomb-chapel (EA37977, EA 37978, EA 37980, EA 37983, EA 37986) © Trustees of the British Museum.
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