#Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes

[nowoolallowed]

Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.48 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Menna (TT 69), north wall

Description:

Copied from an original executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes. To viewer left, Menna holds decoy birds in one hand and raises a throwstick above his head with the other. On the right, he uses a long spear to catch two large fish, most likely Tilapia. In both vignettes, he is poised on the deck of a papyrus skiff, into which members of his family (unnamed here, but probably his wife and several of his children) have crowded.

[nowoolallowed]

Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.48 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Menna (TT 69), north wall

Description:

Copied from an original executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes. To viewer left, Menna holds decoy birds in one hand and raises a throwstick above his head with the other. On the right, he uses a long spear to catch two large fish, most likely Tilapia. In both vignettes, he is poised on the deck of a papyrus skiff, into which members of his family (unnamed here, but probably his wife and several of his children) have crowded.

[nowoolallowed]

Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.48 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Menna (TT 69), north wall

Description:

Copied from an original executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes. To viewer left, Menna holds decoy birds in one hand and raises a throwstick above his head with the other. On the right, he uses a long spear to catch two large fish, most likely Tilapia. In both vignettes, he is poised on the deck of a papyrus skiff, into which members of his family (unnamed here, but probably his wife and several of his children) have crowded.

[nowoolallowed]

Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.48 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Menna (TT 69), north wall

Description:

Copied from an original executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes. To viewer left, Menna holds decoy birds in one hand and raises a throwstick above his head with the other. On the right, he uses a long spear to catch two large fish, most likely Tilapia. In both vignettes, he is poised on the deck of a papyrus skiff, into which members of his family (unnamed here, but probably his wife and several of his children) have crowded.