Servants with funerary equipment

This scene from a Theban tomb chapel depicts sections of the furnishing of the tomb with its equipment. The servants in this fragment are carrying a chest with toilet implements consisting of a mirror and unguent containers, which are depicted above it. In addition, there is a light hunting chariot with lateral quivers. The two men have closely cropped hair and they are bare-chested.

Present location PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM
Inventory number 5959
Dating TUTHMOSIS IV/MENKHEPERURE (not after); 18TH DYNASTY; AMENHOTEP II/AMENOPHIS II/AAKHEPERURE (not before)
Archaeological Site THEBES: WEST BANK
Category WALL PAINTING
Material NILE MUD; PLASTER
Technique STUCCO; PAINTED ON STUCCO
Height 18.9 cm
Width 37.5 cm
Depth 5 cm



Bibliography•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Suche nach Unsterblichkeit : Totenkult und Jenseitsglaube im Alten Ägypten, Hildesheim - Mainz 1990, Kat.-Nr. T 12.
•Seipel, W., u.a., Ägypten : Im Reich der Pharaonen; Auf der Suche nach Schönheit und Vollkommenheit, Leoben 2001, Kat.-Nr. 98

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