The "Meidum Geese", a scene executed in painted plaster and removed from the wall of Nefermaat's tomb, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt, North Africa

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Nefermaat's tomb is also famous for the scene referred to as the "Meidum Geese" (now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 34571/ CG 1742). The scene executed in painted plaster was discovered in 1871 by Auguste Mariette and Luigi Vassalli, and removed from the wall by the latter in order to being reassembled inside the Bulaq Museum. The full scene depicts six geese; three pointing to the left and three pointing to the right. Each group of three geese consists of one goose shown with his head bowed down, eating grass and two geese with their heads held up.

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Size: 4293px × 2117px
Location: Egyptian Museum, Meret Basha, Ismailia, Qasr an Nile, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Photo credit: © John Keates / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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