Papyrus Marsh, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1427–1400 , Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb
Papyrus Marsh, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1427–1400 , Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Qenamun (TT 93), Tempera on paper, facsimile: h. 79 cm (31 1/8 in); w. 68 cm (26 3/4 in), Hugh R. Hopgood, Excerpted from a scene that showed Qenamun fishing in the papyrus marshes, this fragment conveys a sense of life and movement -- as the marshes lay at the edges of the Egyptians' ordered world, they were associated with the undifferentiated and thus lively and chaotic realm which surrounded and threatened the cosmos, but from which all life ultimately sprang
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