Women at a Banquet 1922; original ca. 1400–1390 Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom Nina de Garis Davies This detail of a banquet scene shows a female guest offering another guest a yellow mandrake fruit, which the ancient Egyptians associated with love and sexuality. The fruit has a pleasing smell when ripe, while the mandrake plant itself has hallucinogenic and aphrodisiac effects but is toxic. Several lotus flowers are also depicted. Each headband features a lotus bud, and two guests hold a lotus flower; one is open (though partially destroyed), and another is closed. The lotu
Women at a Banquet 1922; original ca. 1400–1390 Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom Nina de Garis Davies This detail of a banquet scene shows a female guest offering another guest a yellow mandrake fruit, which the ancient Egyptians associated with love and sexuality. The fruit has a pleasing smell when ripe, while the mandrake plant itself has hallucinogenic and aphrodisiac effects but is toxic. Several lotus flowers are also depicted. Each headband features a lotus bud, and two guests hold a lotus flower; one is open (though partially destroyed), and another is closed. The lotus flower, which also has a pleasing scent, was a symbol for regeneration and rebirth because its petals open and close every day. Additionally, the Nymphaea species of lotus has narcotic properties and may have been used to achieve an altered Women at a Banquet. Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965). 1922; original ca. 1400–1390 Tempera on paper. Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom. Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Nebseny (TT 108), MMA Graphic Section, 1922. Dynasty 18
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