File:Egyptmotionseries.jpg
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English: Egyptian, wrestling scene on east wall, tomb of Baqt at Beni Hasan. Necropolis in use 11th and 12th Dynasties (ca. 2000 BCE). Upper left portion of a nineteenth century line draft reproducing original mural in tomb, which was a polychrome of red human figures within Egyptian-style horizontal registers, showing successive moments of a wrestling match between two people, whose skin tones, white and black in the draft, were two shades of the red used on the tomb wall.
See p. 47 (tomb 15) & Plate V in Percy Newberry, Beni Hasan Part II, Archaeological Survey of Egypt, F. Griffith Ed., Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1893; downloadable pdf copy from University of Heidelberg at Heidelberg Digital Library http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/newberry1893bd2 |
| Source | Newspaper clipping, "Hufvudstadsbladet", Helsinki, Finland, published 1972-01-22 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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Public Domain due to age |
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| 2008-12-18 16:00 | 1712×1321× (1056173 bytes) | Janke | {{Information |Description=Egyptian burial chamber mural, ca. 4000 years old |Source= |Date= |Author=unknown |Permission=PD old |other_versions= }} |
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| current | 06:38, 16 July 2017 | | 1,712 × 1,321 (1.01 MB) | Daylen | Transferred from en.wikipedia |
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