The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun

Abstract

THIS book is greatly indebted to Lise Manniche’s pioneering work in the 1980s on the lost tomb-chapel of Nebamun. Since then, it has been possible to examine the surviving paintings in much greater detail and in circumstances that were unavailable for her, so that many points of the descriptions, analyses and reconstructions here inevitably differ from this earlier study. However, her most important hypothesis - concerning the Berlin scenes - has been supported by new evidence. On a more personal note, this book also owes much to Meredith Hooper and her children’s book about Nebamun (1997), which gave me my first opportunity to work on the British Museum’s paintings, in 1996.