Dejeserkareseneb

Dejeserkareseneb

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behind the two daughters, is divided into two sub-registers. Between them they portray the musicians and guests who attend what appears to be a celebration for Djeserkareseneb and Wadjrenpet. Because no tables filled with food are shown, this is definitely not a feast. But what can be seen is plenty to drink. It is almost certain that the right-hand half of the bottom register of the wall is a continuation of the top sub-register, displaying the male guests at this celebration.

At the time when Davies created the line drawings, the right-hand ends of these registers were still intact. However, sometime after that, several images of the seated ladies and their attendants were stolen, leaving the now damaged area. These stolen pieces are discussed in more detail below, including photographs captured when they were in the Cairo museum, before appearing in several other countries in the 1980s; that is after they were apparently stolen again, this time from the Cairo museum.

The process starts on the left-hand side of the bottom register with another image of a tree, like the one seen on the right-hand side of the top register. Again there are food supplies at the base and two baskets hanging in the branches. A man stands in front of the tree holding a basket, possibly having just partaken of some food, but the detail shows seeds falling to the ground in front of him. To the right of the tree and behind the man, the first half of the register (now mostly destroyed) originally showed men using short mattock (an adze shaped tool), so the man before them is probably sowing the ground which they have just cleared of shrubs and loosened the soil. Further behind, a man is cutting a small tree with an axe. Above the men is the representation of a pool of water (best seen in the colour image) as a reminder that the Nile flood has not long receded.
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