The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



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IV. PLAN OF AN EGYPTIAN GARDEN AS REPRESENTED IN AN ANCIENT THEBAN TOMB PAINTING 



This quaint method of presentation has considerable pictorial quality and, in most cases, the symbols are as easily read as 

 names. Here we have a number of garden features still in wide use to-day such as the pool, the arbor, and the vine-covered 

 trellis. Note also the offerings of flowers pictured at the left of the central area. (For more detailed description see page 3 12) 



In the Nineteenth Dynasty, Harmhab, the general who later 

 became king, in a hymn to Ra, emphasized his desire for flowers 

 among the offerings, 



" Rise, thy heart rejoicing. . . . 



That my heart may be satiated with every offering, 



May receive flower offerings from the temple." 



The tomb of Senezen, a lady of the Nineteenth Dynasty con- 

 tains an interesting scene of the plowing and gathering of Flax 

 alongside a garden of trees and flowers (Fig. II, page 3 12). The 

 inclusion of Flax was no doubt intended to give her material for 



weaving in the next world. The plowing is being done with cows 

 yoked together by the horns. Below is a fruit garden with 

 heavily loaded Date Palms, Dom Palms, and Wild Figs. Be- 

 neath is an irrigation ditch filled with water; then a row of 

 flowering bushes or plants. 



A highly decorative painting (Fig. I , page 3 1 1 ) of this dynasty 

 is found in the tomb of Apoui. In the centre of the picture is 

 the entrance to the house, with two columns having lotus-like 

 capitals. At each side the Water-lily and other aquatic plants 

 grow at the edge of two reservoirs. At the right and the left in 

 the shade of Sycamoresare installed twoshadufs for irrigating the 





