Sheikh Abd el-Qurna - Tomb of Enene
Beyond this is No. 81, the Tomb of Enene, Prince and Overseer of the Granaries of Amun, who flourished in the Early New Kingdom and had charge of the building of Tuthmosis I's tomb. The tomb has an unusual layout, with a main chamber which is open in front, with a pillared facade. The paintings depict the dead man's life.
On the pillars (left to right): fishing; harvest scenes (a woman gleaning, three men reaping); work in the fields; Enene at table; Enene's garden, with (below) his house and granary, surrounded by a wall; hunting scene (a hyena, hit by an arrow in the mouth, rears up, while a dog leaps at it); a hare, ibexes and gazelles.
On the pillars (left to right): fishing; harvest scenes (a woman gleaning, three men reaping); work in the fields; Enene at table; Enene's garden, with (below) his house and granary, surrounded by a wall; hunting scene (a hyena, hit by an arrow in the mouth, rears up, while a dog leaps at it); a hare, ibexes and gazelles.
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Main chamber, rear wall, on either side of the door: on the right, peasants bringing tribute; Enene hunting in the marshes and spearing fish; on the left, Enene receiving tribute (top row, dark brown Nubians, including two women carrying children in baskets on their backs); Enene receiving tribute from peasants (note the lines drawn to help the artist); Enene receiving tribute (only the two bottom rows remain, in one of which are necklaces, in the other incense being weighed). Corridor, left hand wall: the funeral, with women mourners; the dead man in the Temple at Abydos (left); farther right, Enene and his wife, seated. In the niche are four statues (the dead man, two women and another man). The shaft in front of the niche has been filled in.