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Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel

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1 Richard Parkinson, The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun, The British Museum Press, London, 2008 at 10. This part of the article is largely based on Parkinson’s detailed and authoritative work.
2 See our articles The Life and Death of Mummy Brown and The Art of Giraffe Diplomacy.
3 Originally known as Demetrio Papandriopulo. He excavated on Salt’s behalf at Thebes from 1817 to 1827, and later on his own behalf: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=98025

4 Parkinson, op cit at 27ff.
5 Parkinson, op cit at 32.
6 An eleventh fragment was evidently sold in Egypt to other collectors and was later presented to the Museum. Other smaller fragments found their way to other museums, such as the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, and possibly the Cairo Museum.
7 Parkinson, op cit at 11, citing D Manley and P Rée, Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist, London, Libri 2002 at 203.
8 Parkinson, op cit at 17.
9  Parkinson, op cit at 18.
10.Parkinson, op cit at 39ff.
11.Parkinson, op cit at 47ff.
12. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/04/british-museum-egyptian-nebamun-tomb
13. Parkinson, op cit at 122ff;  http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/04/british-museum-egyptian-nebamun-tomb 
14.  Parkinson, op cit at 39-41.
15. “Amarna Period”, Society for the Promotion of the Egyptian Museum Berlin http://www.egyptian-museum-berlin.com/c52.php. For an unusually favourable view of Akhenaten’s life and achievements, see Jacquetta Hawkes, Man and the Sun, The Cresset Press 1962, at 108ff.

16. See, for example, A Burridge, “Did Akhenaten Suffer from Marfan’s Syndrome?” Akhenaten Temple Project Newsletter, No 3 Sept 1995; and “A Feminine Physique, A Long, Thin Neck and Elongated Head Suggest Pharaoh Akhenaten Had Two Rare Disorders” (University of Maryland Medical Center)
17. Parkinson, op cit at 39, 43, 127.
18. Parkinson, op cit at 86.
19. Parkinson, op cit at 20.
20. Parkinson, op cit at 18, citing S Moser, Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2006.
21. Parkinson, op cit at 97.
22. E. Prettejohn, “Antiquity fragmented and reconstructed: Alma-Tadema’s compositions,” in Edwin Becker et al (eds), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, New York, 1997, at 42.
23. Rosemary J Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phaedon, 2003, at 27.
24. Prettejohn, op cit at 33ff.
25. A fragment of the banqueting scene also appears in Edward Long’s An Egyptian Feast (1877), on the right side of the lower frieze on the wall in the background.
26. Belinda Thompson, Gauguin, Thames and Hudson, London, 1987, at 151-4.
27. Thompson, op cit at 151.
28. Paul Gauguin, Before and After, 1923.
29. Paul Gauguin, Noa, Noa, 1919 at 20.
30. Thompson, op cit at 154.

31. Thompson, op cit at 154.
32. See also note 25.

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