niche
The niche is 1.6m deep, 1.37m wide and 1.67m high and was placed on the same level as the scenes on the side walls and contains three faceless statues, male figure in the middle and two female on two sides, seated on a bench with their feet placed on a dais. The inscription given above specifies that the man is Pa-heri himself having his wife on his right (west) side and his mother on his left (east) one. The inscription on the rear wall was surrounded by a block border and finished at the top with a pointed kheker-frieze. The side walls of the niche as well as the ceiling are decorated.
Bibliography:
- Naville, Edouard, Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, Tylor, Joseph John, Ahnas el Medineh (Herakleopolis Magna) with Chapters on Mendes, the Nome of Thoth, and Leontopolis. The Tomb of Paheri at el Kab, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund XI, London 1894, 32, Pl(s). X
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- Tylor, Joseph John, Wall drawings and monuments of El Kab. The tomb of Paheri, London 1895, Pl(s). XVI
- Description de l’Égypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, Antiquités, vol. I, Paris 1820, Pl(s). 67 [2]
- Champollion, Jean-François, Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie : notices descriptives conformes aux manuscrits autographes I, Paris 1844, 652-269,1.11, (names of wife and mother)