"Mortuary Chapels of the Nobles", Egypt
name: label: Creator
content: Gaddis & Seif (Luxor (Egypt))
place: label: Place
content: Egypt
creator: label: Creator
content: Gaddis & Seif (Luxor (Egypt))
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content: Stephen Grant postcards
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content: Stephen Grant postcards / Egypt - Thebes
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content: 1 Postcard (Binder, color, 5.5 x 3.5 in)
container: label: Container
content: Binder 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-4624
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Postcards
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content: Title created by archives staff; typed description on verso
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content: Thebes -- Mortuary Chapels of the Nobles --[,] The Mortuary Chapel of Menna (superintendent of[,] the estates of the king and of Amen, at the middle[,] of the 18th dynasty). -- In the top row from left[,] to right, a slave is seen kissing the foot of the[,] overseer, the lands are measured by means of a[,] rope, from which the knobs, that assured the[,] correctness of the measurement, have been struck[,] out by the avenger, in order that Menna may[,] never again count his acres. In the second row,[,] Menna's chariot and servants await to carry him[,] to his fields, the quantity of his grain is recorded[,] by the scribes; Menna stands under a canopy while[,] servants bring him drink. In the third row, Menna[,] sits under a canopy, outside of which is a tree[,] with birds-nests built in it. Scenes of reaping[,] follow.; CARTE POSTALE. Published by A. GADDIS -- LUXOR