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THE
EOCK
TOMBS
OF
EL
AMAENA.
A
second
and
generally
similar
representation
of
the
palace
was
to
have
occupied
the
same
wall
on
the
other
side
of
the
doorway,
forming
part,
no
doubt,
as
in
the
tomb
of
Tutu,
of
a
similar
depiction
of
the
King's
bounty.
As
that
wall
was
still
in
the
rough,
the
only
part
of
the
scene
that
could
be
engraved
was
that
which
extended
over
the
doorway,
meeting
our
scene
in
the
middle
and
forming
a
pendant
to
it
(Pis.
xxviii.,
xxxvi.).1
The
two
pictures
are
separated
by
a
vacant
space
where
the
sky
is
seen
to
terminate
on
a
mountain
in
the
usual
way.
Below
it
are
two
trees,
in
which
I
am
inclined
to
see
a
corner
of
the
palace
garden
rather
than
the
mythological
sycamores
sug¬
gested
by
M.
Maspero.2
On
both
sides
of
the
centre
two
self-contained
buildings
are
shown.
One
contains
two
rooms
entered
from
outside;
apparently,
from
the
contents,
it
comprises
a
store-house
and
larder,
the
more
so
that
servants
sit
round
it
at
their
ease
preparing
and
eating
food.
The
other
and
larger
building
I
judge
to
represent
the
harem
or
that
part
of
it
assigned
to
the
female
servants
or
slaves
;
for
only
women
are
seen
in
it
and
guards
stand
close
by
all
the
doors.
It
is
divided
into
two
suites
of
rooms
which
do
not
communicate,
each
comprising
a
small
hall
with
one
column
and
two
small
chambers
opening
out
of
it.
We
have
already
noticed
that
each
great
house,
whether
royal
or
private,
seemed
to
possess
a
band
of
female
musicians.
As
the
women
shown
here
are
all
busily
engaged
in
the
practice
of
music
and
dancing,
and
the
walls
both
of
the
hall
and
the
closets
are
hung
with
musical
instruments
of
all
kinds,
we
must
conclude
that
this
was
a
prominent
part
of
the
duties
or
recreations
of
the
women
of
the
house.
The
instruments
include
the
lyre,
the
lute,
the
tri¬
angular
harp,
and
the
standing
harp
and
lyre.
It
will
be
seen
that
this
part
of
Plate
xxviii.
is
repro¬
duced
on
a
larger
scale
than
the
other.
The
restorations
are
from
Hay
and
Lepsius.
2
See
Part
III.,
p.
31.
There
is
one
tree
in
III.,
xxxiii.;
three
in
Pis,
xvii,,
xix.
It
will
be
noticed
that
the
women
in
the
upper
room
of
both
houses
have
a
peculiar
mode
of
wearing
the
hair,
by
dividing
it
into
one
or
more
tresses
curling
at
the
ends.
Nor
is
this
mere
neglige,
for
the
women
in
the
rooms
below
wear
the
hair
in
an
ordinary
Egyptian
mode.
This
lock
or
tress
is
quite
un-Egyptian,
but
is
familiar
to
us
in
men
of
Hittite
race
and
known
also
in
Syrian
women.3
In
addition
one
woman
at
least
wears
the
flounced
Syrian
skirt.4
It
will
be
noticed
also
that
the
trigon
and
great
standing
lyre
are
seen
only
in
the
upper
rooms.
The
latter
is
found
only
in
the
hands
of
foreigners,5
and
the
former
is
probably
un-Egyptian
too.6
Now
we
know
from
the
Tell
el
Amama
Letters
that
Akhenaten
had
a
second
wife,
daughter
of
Dushratta,
King
of
Mitanni,
of
whom
no
sign
or
hint
is
given
in
Egyptian
chronicles.
That
this
eastern
wife
whom
Akhenaten
had
taken
for
diplomatic
reasons
would
be
practically
a
prisoner
of
the
harem
is
more
than
likely,7
and
that
her
women
should
have
their
quarters
and
live
apart
from
the
Egyptian
women
would
be
natural
enough.
Nor
need
her
women
be
of
her
own
race
necessarily;
the
artist
at
least
would
be
content
to
show
Syrian
slave-
girls.8
3
Petrie,
Racial
Types,
Nos.
30,
31
(Asealon
?).
L.,
D.,
III.,
106,
shows
that
the
Hittite
women
dressed
the
hair
in
much
the
same
way
as
the
men.
Cf.
Muller,
Asien
und
Europa,
p.
330.
4
This
is
repeatedly
seen
in
the
similar
pictures
Pis.
xvii.,
xix.,
which,
so
far
as
their
state
allows,
are
in
har¬
mony
with
the
scenes
here.
5
See
PI.
vi.,
and
Part
III.,
Pis.
v.,
vii.
For
the
conical
cap
which
they
wear
see
Petrie,
Racial
types,
No.
ISSa
(N.
Syrian
?).
6
Cf.
PI.
vi.
It
is
seen
in
the
hands
of
Bes
and
of
a
woman
with
tresses
(Wilkinson,
Manners
and
Customs,
I.,
p.
469).
Bes
is
said
to
be
a
Semitic
god,
and
the
woman
seems
to
be
a
Hittite
or
Cretan.
7
Cf.
Winckler,
Tell
el
Amama
Letters,
No.
1.
8
We
find
indeed
that,
in
the
last
reign,
Dushratta
repulsed
an
invasion
of
the
Hittites
and
sent
a
boy
and
girl
of
the
prisoners
to
Amenhetep
III-
(Knudtzon
1,,
=
Winckler
16).
II.
xxxvii.,
too,
shows
how
probable
it
is
that
there
were
Hittite
and
Syrian
slave-girls
in
the
King's
harem,
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