Art, Symbol & Imagination
Cattle Herd from a Theban Tomb Painting
Cattle and herders move through two surviving horizontal registers, with red, black and pale animals alternating across the painted fragment. Its broken edges leave the loss of the surrounding wall visible. The caption locates the scene in an eighteenth-dynasty tomb at Thebes and credits the British Museum publication Wall Decorations of Egyptian Tombs. The surviving procession makes agricultural labour the centre of the composition.
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Ancient Egyptian tomb painters (not individually named). "Cattle Herd from a Theban Tomb Painting" [editorial title]. In Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Lewis Spence. September 1923 Harrap reprint; first published August 1913, 1923, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Source scan leaf 71. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-71
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Ancient Egyptian tomb painters (not individually named). Cattle Herd from a Theban Tomb Painting. Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt. Scan leaf 71. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-71