. Ancient Egypt. Egyptology. ; Tawy s marriage to Nakht mav ha\'e been at least her second, for one of the offering bearers in the banquet scene (wallE) is described as "her son, ; For the rest, we know nothing about these people: thev li\'e as thev wished to be immortalized, through the paintings in their tomb. The tomb of Nakht (number 52 in the non- royal necropolis at Thebes) is located on an out- cropping of the Theban hills known as Sheikh Abd-el-Qurna. Even though more than thirt\'-three centuries have passed since completion of the paintings, thev are in rem
. Ancient Egypt. Egyptology. ; Tawy s marriage to Nakht mav ha\'e been at least her second, for one of the offering bearers in the banquet scene (wallE) is described as "her son, ; For the rest, we know nothing about these people: thev li\'e as thev wished to be immortalized, through the paintings in their tomb. The tomb of Nakht (number 52 in the non- royal necropolis at Thebes) is located on an out- cropping of the Theban hills known as Sheikh Abd-el-Qurna. Even though more than thirt\'-three centuries have passed since completion of the paintings, thev are in remarkabh' fine condition. Some damage was done to them near the end of the Eighteenth EKTiasrv (c. 1346-1334 ), when agents of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten entered the tomb and erased the names of Amun, some- times destro\'ing those of Nakht and his wife as well. Other areas of painted plaster have flaked off since then, most seriously in the banquet scene (wallE). Otherwise, the scenes remain intact, with the colors seemingly as fresh as when the\' were ilrst painted. The tomb was discovered in or shorth' before 1889: and it was copied for publication in 1915 b\' Norman DeGaris Daxies and his wife, Nina, who later made the facsimile model for the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, which is now on exhibit at Field Museum. Today, the tomb of Naklit, in Eg\pt, is one of the most frequently visited of all the The- ban tombs. Visitors to the Field Museum who have not been to Egypt may now \iew this full-size copy with the assurance that it faithfully reproduces the designs and brilliant coloring of the original monument. In the descriptions that follow, directions (left, right) and references to the various walls [A-F] are made in terms of the diagram on page 14. In the translations given here, lost or damaged words are restored in brackets. Wall A This wall, divided into two registers of unequal height, falls also into two separate scenes—that of the deceased, with his wife, offer
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