North Wall

The scene was executed in a low raised relief with more or less flat surfaces and without detailed modeling (pl. 90b; fig. 85). More attention appears to have been devoted to the large figure of the owner than to the subsidiary figures, the toe nails, for example, being carefully

44  In Williams, Decoration of Perneb, pl. 13, the contents of the bowls are green with black stippling; in Meir 4, pls. 18, 21, they are yellow. Perhaps an edible seed of some sort was intended. For the bowl, cf. Reisner, Mycerinus, p. 229, fig. 80 [1], Type XLIV [1].

45  Cf. Teti Cem. 2, pl. 53 [2].

Indicated. At the left end of the wall, Khnumenti stood facing right. His legs and feet, the bottom line of a short kilt with flaring front panel, and the outline of his walking stick held at a diagonal before him are preserved. Five offering bearers with close-cropped hair and folded kilts with overlap approach from the right. The bearer at the head of the file held an offering tray aloft in front with his now destroyed right hand and a bird by the wings in his hanging left hand. The offerings on the tray consist of a triangular loaf of bread between two filled, small, flat-bottom, flaring bowls with a lettuce(?) placed on top. The second offering bearer held a bird, whose tail alone survives, in the crook of his right arm and a wickerwork frail by a cord in his left hand hanging behind. The third bearer carried a tray of offerings aloft in front and probably a young animal or other offering, now lost, in the crook of his left arm. The fourth man holds aloft a tray with his right hand and a wickerwork frail by a cord in his hanging left hand. The offerings on the tray are destroyed but, on the basis of the photograph, they evidently consisted of a triangular loaf between two filled bowls with possibly a lettuce above. The last man balanced two trays on his shoulders, but the offerings on the trays are destroyed. In addition, a bunch of vegetables(?) and another of papyrus flowers hang from his elbows. Visible above the heads of the third and fourth figures in the photograph is a segment of groundline from the register above and possibly the very bottom of the foot of another figure walking to the left.