egypt
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“The clearance of the Middle Court of Hatshepsut’s temple. The mounds of debris beneath the Upper Court covered the colonnades which contained some of the most important sequences of scenes and inscriptions in the temple: to the south side of the central ramp (on the left) the sequence commemorating the expedition to Punt, and beyond…
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"Hieroglyphic signs could be used to convey either the sense of words or their abstract phonetic components, and in their simplest form were rendered simply in outline, or in cursive, handwritten forms, with little visual similarity to the pictorial originals. Here, however, it is noticeable that the artists who designed and painted these signs invested…
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"The hoopoe shown here, was painted by Carter, and comes from the bush on the other side of the net, in the scene of Khnumhotep catching birds. The difference in the respective styles, and indeed intentions of the Survey’s artists is evident in the contrast between the bird shown here and those in the previous…
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From the same scene as the ‘cat in the marshes’ via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/4FycPK
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"Howard Carter was most interested in making ‘careful coloured drawings of the more interesting and important details among these mural decorations’. This cat is part of the fishing scene and is shown balancing on the stem of a papyrus plant which is bending underneath its weight. Griffith was inclined to think that it is in…
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"This bush filled with birds of several kinds was painted by Marcus Blackden in 1891. It comes from the same wall of the tomb of Khnumhotep as the fishing scene and is itself only part of a larger scene of the tomb owner catching birds in a net. A variety of species is shown, each…
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