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The Keftiu-Fresco in the Tomb of Senmut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

H. R. Hall
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The subjoined photograph, Fig. 1, very kindly taken for me by Mr. E. R. Ayrton, is, as far as I am aware, the first published of the important fresco of Keftiu (Minoan Cretans?) in the tomb of the architect Senmut at Egyptian Thebes. The three left-hand vases from this fresco were reproduced in colour (not altogether correctly) by Prisse D'Avennes in his monumental work on the History of Ancient Egyptian Art (Art Industriel: Vases des Tributaires de Kafa, 9, 2), and tracings of his drawings were published by Prof. Steindorff, Arch. Anz. 1892, by Mr. W. M. Müller in his Asien und Europa, p. 349, and by me in my Oldest Civilization of Greece, pp. 53, 54. Other tracings of Prisse d'Avennes' reproductions have also appeared. In my article on Keftiu and the Peoples of the Sea in the eighth volume of the Annual of the British School at Athens, pp. 172, 173, Figs. 4–8, I published drawings of four of the vases shewn in this photograph and a fragment of a fifth (which does not appear in it), from sketches made by me at Thebes three years ago.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 10 , November 1904 , pp. 154 - 157
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1904

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page 156 note 1 Myres, J. L., B.S.A. ix. p. 361 ft. Pls. IX. X.Google Scholar According to Mr. Myres' conception of the garment, the band would be part of the loincloth, while the other similar rosette-borders would be the edges of the kilt, a garment distinct from the loincloth.

page 156 note 2 It is perhaps possible also to discern the ivory handle of a dagger, apparently stuck into the kilt, in Champollions drawing of a Rekhmara Keftian, reproduced Asien u. Europa, p. 340, Oldest Civilization, Frontispiece. The vase and boots in this drawing are incorrect (more correctly in the sketch published by Steindorff, , Arch. Ans. 1892, p. 13Google Scholar; second figure from right), but the details of the kilt appear to be reliable. If these are really indications of dagger-handles in both cases, we are probably to understand a dagger or knife depending from the belt, as in the Petsofá figures. The hilt of the Rekhmara dagger (?) would seem to have been rounded, that of the Senmut dagger (?) to have been like the sword-hilt Tsountas-Manatt, Fig. 87.