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AN EGYPTIAN NOBI^e: AND HIS WIL'K 



This mural painting is in one of the rock-hewn tombs at Thebes, in the room where 

 the deceased nobleman and his wife were supposed to live and eat the offering of food and 

 drink supplied by their surviving relatives and friends. In the upper left-hand corner the 

 whole family are depicted fowling and fishing. Like all the wall paintings in the Egyptian 

 tombs, the colors are as fresh and vivid as if laid on yesterday, instead of more than 3,000 

 years ago. 



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