. Discovery. Science. 36 DISCOVERY Meir can be assigned to a time later than the end of the reign of Pi5pi II, about 2720 From then onwards until the Eleventh Djiiasty, about 2040 , with which began the Middle Kingdom, the scenes, hitherto represented in reliefs or frescoes on the walls of the fimerarj- chapels, were reproduced in the form of wooden modelsâsome of them being of beautiful workmanshipâwhich were placed along with the mummy in the subterranean burial-chamber. With the advent of the Twelfth, or perhaps rather towards the end of the Eleventh, Dynasty, the Cusite barons aga
. Discovery. Science. 36 DISCOVERY Meir can be assigned to a time later than the end of the reign of Pi5pi II, about 2720 From then onwards until the Eleventh Djiiasty, about 2040 , with which began the Middle Kingdom, the scenes, hitherto represented in reliefs or frescoes on the walls of the fimerarj- chapels, were reproduced in the form of wooden modelsâsome of them being of beautiful workmanshipâwhich were placed along with the mummy in the subterranean burial-chamber. With the advent of the Twelfth, or perhaps rather towards the end of the Eleventh, Dynasty, the Cusite barons again began to have their tomb-chapels adorned with painted reliefs, these reliefs being of a very remarkable character. In the interval between the Sixth and Eleventh to Twelfth Dynasties a new and local school of art seems to have grown up at Cuss. The artists who executed the reliefs in the earlier Middle Kingdom tomb-chapels at Meir, those of Senbi and his son Ukhhotpe, had broken away to a very great extent sentations of animals, not in the figures of the owner of the tomb-chapel or of his wife or yet of officiants engaged in performing strictly liturgical acts, all such being executed in the old traditional manner. It is possible that this naturalistic art originated not among the craftsmen of Custe, but of Heracleopolis Magna, now called Ehnasiyeh el-Medlneh, the seat of the central government during the Ninth and Tenth DjTiasties, which lasted from about 2500 to 2220 Anyhow, it was certainly in that city that some of the finest literary works of ancient Egypt were produced, viz. the so-called Eloquent Peasant, The Instruction which King Akhthoi made for his Son Merikere', The â Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage, and possibly also The Dialogue with his Soul of One who is Weary of Life âworks of striking originality and of marked freedom in thought and style. The new and free spirit which inspired the early Middle Kingdom artists of Custe makes itself strongly. Fir,.
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