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themagiclantern:

Tomb painting of a woman with offerings.

Limestone, painted and gessoed. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18.Circa 1539-1425 B.C. Probably from Thebes. Brooklyn Museum, New York.

This fragment of wall painting from a tomb depicts a lady sitting on a green mat, inhaling the flagrence of a blue lotus. Sealed jars of beer and wine rest under a table loaded with other offerings of white and yellow loaves of bread and a dark read calf’s head.

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