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An Addition to the Senmut-Fresco

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

H. R. Hall
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On looking lately through a volume (AD. MSS. 29,822) of the manuscript collections bequeathed by the late Mr. Robert Hay to the British Museum, I came across a partly coloured drawing (f. 33) by him, of the well-known wall-painting of Keftian (Minoan Cretan) ambassadors in the tomb of Senmut at Egyptian Thebes. A direct photograph (by Mr. E. R. Ayrton) of this painting was published by me in the Annual for 1903–4 (x. p. 154) and a year later, Dr. W. M. Müller gave us a fine photograph and also a hand-drawn reproduction of it in colour in the first volume of his Egyptological Researches, published by the Carnegie Institute (1906), Plates 5, 6, and 7. These were the first published illustrations of the whole painting as it is now.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 16 , November 1910 , pp. 254 - 257
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1910

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References

page 254 note 1 Histoire de l' Art égyptienne: Vases des Tributaires de Kafa, ii. Pl. 7. No. 2. etc.

page 254 note 2 A small fragment of the ewer and sword remain, and are shewn in Müller's Plate 6, but their correct relation to the rest of the picture has naturally not been recognized, and they are tilted over too much to the left. Hay's drawing shews how they should be placed.

page 255 note 1 Evans, Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, Fig. 125, S8.

page 256 note 1 See Breasted, Hist. Eg. Fig. 163; Müller, Asien und Europa, p. 374.

page 256 note 2 Schuchhardt, Schliemann, Figs. 268, 269. There is one exception, but its blade is not so broad as the Shardana swords or this Keftian weapon.

page 256 note 3 Evans, Prehistoric Tombs, Fig. 109.

page 256 note 4 As we see on the well-known gold ring-intaglio, Schuchhardt, Fig. 221.

page 256 note 5 Schuchhardt, Fig. 227.

page 256 note 6 Cf. Naue, Vorrömische Schwerter, 1. 4, (Hagia Paraskevé), 5 (Psemmatisinéno), II, 5 (Psemmatisméno).

page 256 note 7 Naue, l.c. III. 4.