THE
TOMB
OP
PANEHEST.
17
unrestrained
acclamations.
The
men
wave
branches
and
make
demonstrations
of
joy
and
devotion
;
the
women
have
formed
themselves
into
a
choir,
or
have
engaged
professional
performers
to
represent
them.
(cf.
Part
I.,
pp.
22,
29).
A
little
escort
of
soldiers
marches
behind
Panehesy
in
double
file.
The
further
rank,
which
is
naturally
hidden
by
the
nearer,
is
rendered
visible
in
the
picture
by
the
simple
device
of
raising
the
men
head
and
shoulders
above
their
fellows.
Two
military
standards
are
borne
by
the
squad.
In
a
short
inscription
attached
to
the
scene,
Panehesy
is
designated
as
usual
"
the
great
favourite
of
the
Lord
of
the
Two
Lands
and
the
chief
Servitor
of
the
Aten."
What
seems
to
be
the
cry
of
the
crowd
is
almost
illegible
"
health,
life,
prosperity
(?)
to
Pharaoh
!
0
Aten
!
grant
it
for
ever."1
The
wall
has
been
made
unsightly
by
the
Copts,
who
cut
an
arched
recess
near
the
doorway
and
two
long
upright
grooves
in
the
wall.
They
were
perhaps
contemplating
a
doorway
or
window
at
this
point.2
6.—The
Royal
Family
making
Offerings
to
the
Aten.
South
Wall.
East
side.
Plates
xi.,
xii.
Previous
copies
are
L'Hote,
Papiers,
xi.
2
(reproduced
by
Amelineau,
Sepulture,
pi.
Ixxxiii.,
p.
608).
Lepsius,
D.iii.
91
n
(head
of
servant
at
top
of
Plate
xii.).
The
treatment
of
this
familiar
subject
offers
no
features
of
exceptional
interest.
In
face
of
these
altar-stands
loaded
with
meat
offerings,
one
feels
that
Akhenaten
had
scarcely
succeeded
in
finding
a
ritual
in
harmony
with
the
severely
simple
and
natural
conception
of
deity
which
he
had
introduced.
But
if
this
massing
of
food
and
drink
offerings
is
felt
to
be
an
inheritance
1
Conjecturing
^
Jj
<-^-i
^
|
|1.
Cf.
I.
xxx.
and
the
tombs
of
Mahu
and
Pentu.
2
For
the
mode
of
decorating
the
top
part
of
the
S.
wall,
see
Plate
v.
of
old
traditions
and
crass
anthropomorphism,
it
is
redeemed
by
the
preference
given
to
flowers
and
fruits
as
objects
acceptable
to
the
god.
The
presentation
of
those
products
of
the
soil
whose
grace
and
colour
is
their
chief
attraction,
and
which
are
so
obviously
called
into
being
and
beauty
by
the
sunlight,
bears
witness
to
a
finer
sentiment,
which
even
Christianity
approves.
Its
prominence
here
is
obvious.
Not
only
are
the
meat-offerings
covered
with
flowers
and
grapes,
and
the
stands
set
about
with
bouquets
and
lotus-blooms,
but
the
offerings
of
the
King
(?)
and
Queen
consist
of
such.
The
princesses
too
are
provided
with
these
fit
emblems
of
"
the
beauty
of
the
Aten,"
whose
fragrance
Ankhes-
en-pa-aten
would
have
her
little
sister
enjoy
once
more
before
parting
with
them
to
the
god.
Nor
is
the
King
content
to
devote
one
bouquet
only.
Panehesy
(indicated
by
his
name
and
familiar
titles)
and
his
attendants
bring
yet
others
for
the
King
to
dedicate.
As
"
Chief
Servitor
of
the
Aten
"
he
assists
the
King
in
the
rites,
and
it
may
be
in
commemoration
of
such
occasions
that
the
scene
is
pourtrayed
in
his
tomb.
The
faces
of
two
of
the
shade-bearers
high
up
on
the
wall
have
escaped
injury,
and
present
very
characteristic
El
Amarna
pro¬
files.
(Consult
the
large
reproduction
in
L.
D.
iii.
91
n).
The
subjoined
register
(PI.
xi.)
only
contains
the
usual
figures
of
attendants,
and
a
repetition
of
the
figures
of
Panehesy
(?)
and
his
fellow-
priests
(?)
The
royal
chariot
is
distinguished
by
size
and
decoration
from
the
private
car
of
Panehesy.
7.—The
Royal
Family
driving
out.
East
Wall.
Plates
xiii.
to
xvii.
Cf.
L'Hote,
Papiers,
xi.
6,
28.
The
scene
on
this
wall
remains
unfinished
on
the
left
hand,
and,
as
there
is
no
inscription,
the
object
of
the
public
appearance
which
it
depicts
is
uncertain.
But
it
seems
to
be
the
original
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