Nebamun hunting in the marshes

European Museums, The British Museum

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Nebamun hunting in the marshes

Nebamun is in a small boat, hunting birds with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter in the marshes of the Nile. Scenes of leisure had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for centuries and they showed the tomb-owner 'enjoying himself and seeing beauty' in the afterlife, as the hieroglyphic caption here says.

Fertile marshes were a place of rebirth and eroticism, making this more than a simple image of recreation. The huge striding figure of Nebamun dominates, forever happy and forever young, surrounded by the rich and teeming life of the marsh. Hunting not only supplied food but represented Nebamun's triumph over the forces of chaos.

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Nebamun hunting in the marshes

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Source:  London, United Kingdom