Fragment of a relief with butcher's scene and fluteplayer
The fragment must have come from a mastabachapel. Parts of two scenes are preserved on it. On the right hand side, part of the upper body of a man is visible. He is playing a transverse flute and is wearing a skull cap. On the left hand side, a man wearing a short wig and a loin-cloth is shown. He lifts his right leg, causing the loin-cloth to open slightly. A whetstone on a rope is stuck in the belt. The man raises up the foreleg of a cow with both hands. Of another man, holding the hoof, only the hand is visible, as well as a part of the knife which he uses to cut off the foreleg. The scenes are separated by a vertical line. Three or four lines of text are present.
(1) Take it, do it well, (2) as fast as you can. (3) Playing the flute for the ka (4) good
Bibliography
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W.A. van Leer, Verzameling W.A. van Leer, JEOL, I,5, 1937, 466/pl. XXX
F.W. von Bissing, Reliefs des Alten un Mittleren Reichs aus Sammlung von Bissing im Museum Scheurleer I, Bulletin Antieke Beschaving IX,1 (1934), 3-4/fig. 3
W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 30-31
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, W.M. van Haarlem, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 37, 38/fig.18
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Egypte, geschenk van de Nijl, 1992, 132/fig. 97
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