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Butchering scene

Butchering Scene

Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 5, about 2450-2345 B.C.
Limestone
Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 1904 04.1760

Before Amarna

Such everyday activities as the butchering of cattle were represented on the walls of Egyptian tombs from the Old Kingdom on, but in more formal, patterned poses than the livelier and more natural scenes of daily life from Amarna.