Painting #002 - Ancient Egypt

On display at the British Museum, London

Wall fragments from the Tomb of Nebamun 
- an Egyptian "scribe and counter of grain"

The Tomb of Nebamun, located somewhere in the Theban Necropolis in Egypt, was the source of a number of decorated tomb scenes currently in storage in the British Museum, London. In 2009 the British Museum opened up a new gallery dedicated to the display of the restored 11 wall fragments from Nebamun's tomb, described as one of the Museum's greatest treasures.


(1) "Pond in a Garden" wall painting  

Pond in a Garden
- from the Tomb of Nebamun (Egypt)
- fresco (64 x 74 cm) 1350 BCE
- British Museum (London) 

(2) "Fowling (in the marshes)" fresco 

Fowling scene
- from the Tomb of Nebamun (Egypt)

- fresco (81 x ? cm) 1350 BCE
- British Museum (London)

Nebamun on a boat with wife and daughter, with baton in one hand and 3 birds in the other.

Source: Wikipedia

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Weighing of the Heart 

Drawn on 40-cm-high papyrus for a funeral chamber
Anubis (half-kneeling) attended the weighing scale in the process: 
a soul associated to a light heart would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead; 
a heavy (=sinful) heart would be eaten by Ammit (waiting at the bottom right corner). 

Weighing of the Heart

 

Egyptian Room in British Museum 

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 Ancient Egyptian Music