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| Nebamun appear in this scene from his tomb |
The Tomb of Nebamun from the
Dynasty XVIII was excavated in the Theban Necropolis located on the western bank of
the Nile at
Thebes (contemporary
Luxor), in Egypt. The tomb was the author of a number of famous inflamed tomb shots that are currently on display in the British Museum, London.
Nebamun (1350 BCE) was a middle-ranking official scriber and grain return at the temple complex in Thebes. His tomb was named in 1820 by a young Greek, Giovanni ("Yanni") dAthanasi, who was doing as an agent for Henry Salt, the British Consul-General.
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Scene of cat attacking
birds from Nebamun's
tomb |
The tomb's wet walls were richly and skilfully mounted with lively fresco pictures, depicting idealised views of Nebamuns life and activities. DAthanasi and his workingmen literally hacked out the bits he wanted with knives, saws and crowbars. Cutting sold these works to the British Museum in 1821, though special of other fragments became situated in Berlin and perchance Cairo. DAthanasi later died in impoverishment without ever revealing the tombs exact location.
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Scene for dancers and
musicians from Nebamun's
tomb |
The best-famous of the tombs paintings accept Nebamun fowl hunting in the marshes, dancing girls at a banquet, and a pond in a garden. In 2009 the British Museum opened up a new gallery devoted to the display of the repaired eleven wall shards from the tomb. They have been drawn as the best paintings from ancient Egypt to have survived, and as one of the Museum's greatest gems.
several scenes from the paintings have been applied by artists in more modern times. Lawrence Alma-Tadema one a scene of geese crowding for a wall decoration shown in his Joseph, Overseer of Pharaohs Granary (1874), and Paul Gauguin used component of a banquet scene as a compositional plan in his Ta Matete(1892).
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