. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. io.—Ploughing and Harvest (XVIIIth Dynasty). the man who drinks appears, not in the ploughing,but in the harvest scene, where, on reaching theboundary of the field, he puts his sickle under hisarm and carries an elongated vessel to his lips(Fig. 13).2 Slight variations of the Homericploughman are found in the Egyptian pictures of 1 From a tomb at El Kab (Erman, Aegyptcn, p. 575), and Wil-kinson, Manners and Customstnf p. 4x9. 2 Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, ii, p. 419. Homer and Egypt 235 the harvest. In the tombs at Zaouit-el-Meitin,1of the Vth and VIth dyna
. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. io.—Ploughing and Harvest (XVIIIth Dynasty). the man who drinks appears, not in the ploughing,but in the harvest scene, where, on reaching theboundary of the field, he puts his sickle under hisarm and carries an elongated vessel to his lips(Fig. 13).2 Slight variations of the Homericploughman are found in the Egyptian pictures of 1 From a tomb at El Kab (Erman, Aegyptcn, p. 575), and Wil-kinson, Manners and Customstnf p. 4x9. 2 Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, ii, p. 419. Homer and Egypt 235 the harvest. In the tombs at Zaouit-el-Meitin,1of the Vth and VIth dynasties, about 26(X> ; .,a man comes to meet a harvester at the boundaryof the field and with both hands holds out to hima vessel that his companion may drink (Fig. 12).The motive was familiar enough to the Egyptiandecorators, and it seems likely that some day from.
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