. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. 14.—Reapers and Gleaners (XVIIth Dynasty). Again, in the hypogeum of Nakhti (Fig. 10), wesee above the ploughman, three reapers cuttingwith their sickles the ears of corn, which stand ashigh as their heads; behind them, a little girl stoopsto gather the ears of corn which she puts in a little 1 Trans.: Lang, Leaf, and Myers. Homer and Egypt 237 basket; above, the binders bind closely togetherby means of a cord and a stick the sheaves whichlie heaped in a great wicker basket, while, on theirleft, two girls are plucking flax (Fig. 10). Incontrast with the Homeric

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. Kings and gods of Egypt . Fig. 14.—Reapers and Gleaners (XVIIth Dynasty). Again, in the hypogeum of Nakhti (Fig. 10), wesee above the ploughman, three reapers cuttingwith their sickles the ears of corn, which stand ashigh as their heads; behind them, a little girl stoopsto gather the ears of corn which she puts in a little 1 Trans.: Lang, Leaf, and Myers. Homer and Egypt 237 basket; above, the binders bind closely togetherby means of a cord and a stick the sheaves whichlie heaped in a great wicker basket, while, on theirleft, two girls are plucking flax (Fig. 10). Incontrast with the Homeric description, here, thechildren glean for themselves, instead of bindingup the sheaves for the reapers; the same thing.

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