. Kings and gods of Egypt . stic features of this descriptionare produced in only a few pictures of the Egyptiantombs. Pastoral scenes occur constantly in theMemphite mastabas and the hypogea of Beni-Hasan and El-Bersheh;3 but the essential pointof comparison, the attack of the lion, is the contrary, a picture in the mastaba ofPhtahhetep4 gives us, beneath the vintage, ahunting-scene in which occurs the Homeric motiveof the lion. The incident takes place in an un-dulating part of the desert, and not on the banks 1 Iliad, xviii, 573~586. 2 Trans.: Lang, Leaf, and Myers. 3 Newberry, B
. Kings and gods of Egypt . stic features of this descriptionare produced in only a few pictures of the Egyptiantombs. Pastoral scenes occur constantly in theMemphite mastabas and the hypogea of Beni-Hasan and El-Bersheh;3 but the essential pointof comparison, the attack of the lion, is the contrary, a picture in the mastaba ofPhtahhetep4 gives us, beneath the vintage, ahunting-scene in which occurs the Homeric motiveof the lion. The incident takes place in an un-dulating part of the desert, and not on the banks 1 Iliad, xviii, 573~586. 2 Trans.: Lang, Leaf, and Myers. 3 Newberry, Beni-Hasan, ii, Plate 12.« Dumichen, Resultate . ,, Plate VIII. 246 Kings and Gods of Egypt of a river. Moreover, it would appear to be alion-hunt with a live bull serving as a bait, ratherthan the attack upon a flock by a lion. Yet thegroup of the lion and the bellowing bull whosebowrels are moved with terror, and the group of thehunter or ox-herd exciting the fleet greyhoundswhich swerve away, prudently sheltering them-. Fig. 20.—The Attack of the Bull by the Lion (Vth Dynasty). selves behind their master, invite comparison(Fig. 20). The motive of a lion seizing upon a bull wastreated in other works of art. On an Egyptianaxe in the Berlin Museum, we see the lion seizingthe bull by the muzzle as in the funeral a bronze cup in the Cairo Museum, we see aflock grazing on the banks of the Nile, where thefish leap high and the reeds grow tall; the cattleare chewing the cud, a cow suckles her calf, when,suddenly, a lion dashes into their midst, and hurlshimself at the head of one of the 1 G. Stcindorff, Die Blidezeit des Pharaonenreiches (1900), p. Jahrbuch des kaiserl. deutsch. archaeol. Institute, Bd. xiii,1898, 1. Cj. Stcindorff, p. 134. I Tomer and Egypt 247 To sum up, the scenes on the Shield dealing withagricultural life recall, in their general arrangement as well as in certain particular details, a number ofEgyptian pictures scattered among the t
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