Page 56 - Neville: "I often occurs in the tombs of the Old Empire that the women are painted light yellow, like these men. It has been explained by the fact that the women, being supposed to keep indoors more than the men, were less sunburnt, and lighter in color; but this explanation could hardly be accepted in the present case. I believe we must see here two different races, the red ones are the Egyptian conquerors, the yellow ones the old African (Libyan) stock... It seems to me that in this picture on the sarcophagus of Kemsit we have a reminiscence of the fact that the Egyptian nation was formed of an African native element mingled with foreign invaders."
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Interesting document but I couldn't get the PDf to download so that it could be searched easily. Either my reader is not updated enough or there is a better format for the document than a normal PDF,
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The majority of the scenes in the chapel take their inspiration from the Book of The Dead, but the artist has nevertheless managed to express a certain degree of originality in their details. The sequence of scenes unfolds according to a logical order: the funeral and the scenes on earth which follow the death, lead to the door of the burial chamber. From then, unfold the scenes showing the life of the deceased in the Amenti, at the border of which Amenemonet is greeted by king Mentuhotep and queen Neferys. Scenes of worship to Amun, Horus, Maat and other deities, conclude this decorative programme. The mural paintings, with their bright and fresh colours, are painted on a pale bluish-white wash throughout the chapel.
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