2-751-334 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bouquet capital', Thebes, Egypt, (1928). 'So-called bouquet capitals (papyrus clusters, lilies, nymphaea) as depicted on wall paintings and made of wood...1120 B.C...from the Theban tomb of "Aichesi", the Arch-priest, the Superintendent of the Altar and the writings of the Temple of Amun" from the time of Rameses IX (1142-1123 B.C). As the name "Aichesi" has evidently been mis-read, it should probably be "Imisiba" who had the same titles and lived at the end of the XXth Dynasty (perhaps under Rameses X) and was buried in Thebes'. After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate V, fig 14, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]