In the tomb of Pery-neb:

On the walls of the passage between the vestibule and the chapel are male and female figures
personifying estates which were to furnish in perpetuity the lord chamberlains mortuary provisions.
Laden with baskets of bread !ars of beer and cuts of meat and carrying in their hands live birds and
flowers the "estates# proceed toward the chapel where the funerary feast is being served.
On the main chamber of offering:
$his chamber as we know was set apart for the presentation of food offerings to Pery-nebs spirit % the
serving of the funerary meal % servants bring food into the tomb. &e see Pery-neb seated behind a table
stacked with slices of bread. In front of the servants are the mortuary priests who wash the offering table
burn incense and bring the napkins for the repast. 'bove forming an intricate and once brilliantly
colored frie(e are shown the numberless tables stands baskets and !ars of food and drink which made
up the larder of the deceased courtier. )ig. should be scanned.
&e see servants are carrying food *live birds and other supplies+ into the chapel. Inside the chamber on
the right over a cupboard with a shelf for water !ars food asnd drink are prepared by ,ea-em-
kuysservants.
-elow two fishermen bring up more fish in a large wicker basket slung between them on a carrying pole.
)arther to the right in the same section of wall two men knead dough on a law table women prepare
garlic and other seasoning for the bread a baker feeds sticks into an oven on which large oval loaves are
being cooked and two "female millers# as the hieroglyphic labels call them grined flour in basinlike
stone mills.
Lumps of bread dough have been placed in pottery molds lined up on a shelf and heaped over an open fire
tended by a woman who with her left hand shields her face from the heat of the flame. $he yeasty lumps
are broken up and mi.ed with water to form a thin mash which we see a second woman mi.ing in a large
vat. $he mash is then poured into a wicker sieve and strained by a brewer into a spouted vat set on a stand
of coiled basketwork. )inalley the beer is decanted through the spout of the vat into pottery !ars which
the man at the left of the group is in the act of lining with pitch or resin.
$he register is filled out and completed by a row of the ever-present bearers of food. ' single block from
the rows of food offerings.
$he preparation of the meat course for a great feast. ' cook is seen cutting the meat into smaller pieces on
a low chopping block and stewing them in a large cauldron.
' poultry cook is roasting a dressed and spitted goose over a bra(ier keeping the low flame alive by
means of a palm-leaf fan.
' ban/uet for ,ea-em-kuy as he is seated on a chair with his back to the false door. -efore him are
ranged copious offerings among which fruits flowers and covered !ars on stands predominate. -elow
butlers re bringing up additional foodstuffs on large wicker tables is repeated at smaller scale in the
"window# above the false door. 'bove this table are a nested ewer and basin for washing the hands a
trussed duck and a cut of meat and below are written the words " ' thousand loaves of bread a thousand
!ars of beer.#
)ig. 01 important22