Part of Khety's desert hunt scene ca. 2051–2000 Middle Kingdom The tomb of Khety, the first recorded royal treasurer of Mentuhotp III, was situated high up in the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri. These relief fragments come from the tomb’s entrance passage, which was lined with decorated limestone the Old Kingdom onward, scenes of people hunting animals in the desert were a standard part of tomb decorations (compare the desert hunt in the tomb of Raemkai, ). During the third and the earlier second millennium , the Egyptian desert still had the character of a hilly savannah

Part of Khety's desert hunt scene ca. 2051–2000 Middle Kingdom The tomb of Khety, the first recorded royal treasurer of Mentuhotp III, was situated high up in the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri. These relief fragments come from the tomb’s entrance passage, which was lined with decorated limestone the Old Kingdom onward, scenes of people hunting animals in the desert were a standard part of tomb decorations (compare the desert hunt in the tomb of Raemkai, ). During the third and the earlier second millennium , the Egyptian desert still had the character of a hilly savannah populated by bushy plants and a multitude of animals such as gazelles, antelopes, rabbits, and an occasional lion or scraps of Khety’s desert hunt are preserved, but these few fragments are precious because they present glimpses of very lively animal representations and are paralleled by only a few other tombs dating to the beginning of the Middle Part of Khety's desert hunt scene. ca. 2051–2000 Limestone, paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Khety (TT 311, MMA 508), MMA excavations, 1922–23/1926–27. Dynasty 11

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