The Tomb of Nebamun Frescoes

Title: The Tomb of Nebamun Frescoes
Rights: Creative Commons / Media and Images are property of The British Museum
Creator: Annonymous
Date: 1350BC
Description: Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting depicting Nebamun standing in a small boat, fowling and fishing in the marshes, his wife stands behind him and his daughter sits beneath, he holds a throw-stick in one hand and three decoy herons in the other, his cat is shown catching three of the numerous birds startled from the papyrus-thicket, fish are shown beneath the water-line, lotus flowers with large and broad leaves
Format: Tomb painting
Dimensions
Height: 98 centimetres
Thickness: 22 centimetres
Width: 98 centimetres (painting only) (painting only)
Width: 115 centimetres
Contributor: Purchased from: Henry Salt
Identifier: Materials
plaster
Rights Holder: The British Museum
Subject: Thebes (historic - Upper Egypt)
Temporal Coverage: 18th Dynasty