This harvest scene is composed of three wall segments. The bottom register shows the transport of large sacks of barley to the threshing floor. To the right are two labourers who pile up the goods. The middle register has scenes of the harvest of flax and barley, carried out with sickles. To the right is an overseer inspecting the work's progress. The uppermost register continued the agricultural theme, but this has now all but disappeared.
"[1] (The) overseer" "[2] Cut it off well! / Yes!" "[3] (The) threshing of the barley" "[4] Yes (?)" "[5] (The) piling up on the threshing floor" "[6] Get on with it!"
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