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tomb-painting

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, eight vertical registers of hieroglyphs remain.

AN244330001

© The Trustees of the British Museum

Department: Ancient Egypt & Sudan

Registration number: .37977

BM/Big number: 37977

Additional IDs
ES.170

Bibliographic reference
Rawson 1984 fig. 177
Strudwick N 2006 p.170
Shaw & Nicholson 1995 p135

Location: G61/2F

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