. Kings and gods of Egypt . Binders (Vth Dynasty). Fig. 16.âThe Master occurs in a picture in the Paheris tomb1 (), where two little girls are seen gleaning, thefirst saying to the men who are reaping the corn:Give me a handful. . (Egyptian: DOT,manipulus sheaf). But in other pictures, thereapers are helped by other workmen who hold upthe sheaves for those who bind them together;3sometimes it is the flax stalks which are beingmade all the same length before they are boundtogether. Finally, in a Memphite mast aba, we see 1 J. Tylor, The Tomb of Paheri, Plate Lepsius, Denkmdler, ii,
. Kings and gods of Egypt . Binders (Vth Dynasty). Fig. 16.âThe Master occurs in a picture in the Paheris tomb1 (), where two little girls are seen gleaning, thefirst saying to the men who are reaping the corn:Give me a handful. . (Egyptian: DOT,manipulus sheaf). But in other pictures, thereapers are helped by other workmen who hold upthe sheaves for those who bind them together;3sometimes it is the flax stalks which are beingmade all the same length before they are boundtogether. Finally, in a Memphite mast aba, we see 1 J. Tylor, The Tomb of Paheri, Plate Lepsius, Denkmdler, ii, 106 b. 2i>8 Kings and Gods of Egypt the corn cut by the sickle, falling in rows alongthe swathe,1 as in Homer (Fig. 17). We shouldfurther notice, inserted in several harvest scenes,the motives of the man who quenches his thirst,two variants of which occur in Figures 12 and 14,upon which comments have already been for the meal prepared by the Homeric x^puxsc,it has its exact equivalent in the dismemberment. Fig. 17.âReapers (Vth Dynasty). of the sacrificial bull by the sacrificial slaugh-terers, portrayed in a corner of the picture in thetomb of Nakhti. In Egypt, as in Homeric Greece,every meal is also a sacrifice, and the epithetgiven to the men who prepare the Homeric repast,tepsucavisq, can also be applied to the Egyptianslaughterers. Here, in the tomb, it is, pri-marily a meal for the deceased that is in course 1 Diimichen, Resultate der anhaelog. photograph. Expedition,Plat. X. Srealso Newberry, Bent-Hasan, i, Plate 29. 3 In Nakhtis tomb, \w- see above the picture of the harvest,one of the measuring of the corn in bushels and the threshing ofitâthe last stages of the preparation of the cereal offerings. Homer and Egypt 239 of preparation (Pig. lO), and the dismembermentis a preparatory stage before the offering of thethighs, which are seen above upon the sacrificial pile. The essential point to notice is that thesacrifice of the bull, portrayed here, above th
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