Floor painting in a palace at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, (1928). '1370 ' A pool with fish, birds in flight, plants, and, at the bottom, a row of men of African and Middle Eastern appearance, with bows. 'The so-called floor No. 2 was in a columned hall; the position of the (palm) columns is shown on the reconstruction by grey a water-colour reconstruction by Miss Clara Siemens in the Berlin Egyptian Museum.' Plate XI, fig 34, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert.

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Floor painting in a palace at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, (1928). '1370 ' A pool with fish, birds in flight, plants, and, at the bottom, a row of men of African and Middle Eastern appearance, with bows. 'The so-called floor No. 2 was in a columned hall; the position of the (palm) columns is shown on the reconstruction by grey a water-colour reconstruction by Miss Clara Siemens in the Berlin Egyptian Museum.' Plate XI, fig 34, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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