ABSTRACT
Hamilton describes a hunting scene in this tomb which was omitted by the other travellers: The same hand that had succeeded so well in this scene was probably employed to depict in the same grotto an Egyptian hunt, where the Laird of the estate is in his car drawn by two horses, exactly resembling the war-chariot of the monarch in the battle-scenes, armed with his bow and arrows, and attended by his servants on foot. The mountains of the desert before him are crowded with ostriches, stags, wolves, leopards, porcupines. The oescher plant is the only shrub which seems to enliven the scene with any symptoms of vegetation. The interest excited by this singular picture is not a little heightened by the consideration of the changes that must have since taken place in the brute inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Most hunting scenes in the tombs date from the reign of Tuthmosis III and occur in T-shaped tombs.
