Marcelle Baud, circa 1935, Copy of the Wall Paintings in the Tomb Chapel of Amenmose at Thebes (Theban Tomb 19)

forty-four panels painted on canvas, including:



 



Three registers: Valley Festival and funeral procession. I, Barque of Mut and barque of Amun-Ra towed on a canal, statue of "Amenhotep of the Forecourt" in a palanquin carried by priests and men acclaiming. II, Barque with statue of Ahmose-Nefertari drawn from a temple. III, "Nine Friends" sarcophagus" pulled by men and oxen, with female mourners, and men bearing funeral goods.



 



Three registers: Festival of Amenhotep I and funeral procession. I, Two scenes: 1, barque of Amenhotep I on a lake with female mourners, and men dragging a royal statue; 2, two scenes: stick-fighting and wrestling, and barque with statue of Tuthmosis III in front of his temple. II, Two scenes: 1, deceased and priest before two rows of seated kings and queens; 2, barque of Ahmose-Nefertari towed on a lake with trees, piles of offerings and female mourners, and two statues of Amenhotep I in palanquins with priests in front of a temple. III, Butchers and cow, male relatives, lector with Opening of the Mouth instruments, three priests pouring a libation before mummies and a stela at a pyramid tomb, and the deceased with his son Beknay and his wife, Iuy, adoring the Hathor Cow emerging from the Mountain.



 



Two Registers: Book of Gates and funeral ceremonies. I, Weighing of the heart and Horus with assessor gods leading deceased and wife to Osiris and winged Isis. II, Three scenes: 1, priest libates to deceased and wife; 2, female mourner; 3,  two priests before deceased and wife at pyramid tomb.



 



Two Registers: I, Double-scene: on the right half the deceased, his son Beknay, and his wife, censes and libates to Re-Horakhty-Atum, Amenhotep I, Hathor, and Western goddess; on the left half the deceased, mother, and daughter(?) before three divinities and King. II, Two Scenes: 1, a priest, lector, and female mourners before deceased and wife at pyramid tomb; 2, son Beknay, followed by priest, son Panefernekhu as lector, and female mourners, offers bouquet to deceased and wife, and tree-goddess scene with bas drinking and Benu-bird behind them.



 



Two registers: I, statue of Amenhotep I in a palanquin carried from his temple and acclaimed by priests and priestesses with sistra and tambourines, and small scenes of servants with food in the booth above. II, Two scenes: 1, priest, lector, and female mourners before the deceased and his wife seated in front of a pyramid tomb; 2, son Beknay, man with bouquet, and man with vase before the deceased and his wife seated in front of a pyramid tomb.



 



Entrance to Inner Room: Lintel, double-scene, priest offers to deceased and wife.



 

accessioned by the Museum in 1935

The tomb of the priest Amenmose dates to the 19th Dynasty, probably to the reigns of Rameses I/Sety I (1292-1279 B.C.). It appears to have been published only once by George Foucart in Tombes thébaines: nécropole de Dira-Abu-Naga (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, vol. 57: 3-4), Cairo, 1932. Marcelle Baud is listed as one of the contributors to this publication. The only other known set of painted copies of this tomb, also by Baud, is in the Musée Royal du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. They provide an important record of these unusual and important wall paintings, the present condition of which is unknown.

 

A concise description of the wall paintings from the tomb of Amenmose, which is paraphrased in the description above, can be found in Bertha Porter and Rosalind L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, I, The Theban Necropolis, Part 1: Private Tombs, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1960, no. 19, pp. 32-34.