Tomb of Mereruka

 marshes filled with wild life. Each side is set on a stretch of horizontal water teaming with a variety fish, large hippopotami and dangerous crocodiles, all drawn with no regard to scale, but with an anatomical precision leaving no doubt to the identity of the fish species. Of particular interest is the broad stretch of water (shown vertically) on the north wall .




The lower registers of each wall still exists, but the imagery of Mereruka is more fully preserved on the south wall, showing his head and extended left arm ).

 On both walls Mereruka is shown accompanied by his wife in a light papyrus skiff and in both cases they face towards the entrance to the inner chambers.
On the north wall Mereruka is fishing with a harpoon. The characters of the accompanying sub-registers participate by hunting the hippopotamus, while other men carry fish in baskets (see opposite, and.

This wall contains the longest surviving list of Seshseshet's titles. However, even though the upper portions of the seven columns is lost , these can still be translated with reasonable accuracy). "King's daughter of (his) body (…) by her father, his beloved, priestess of Hathor, Lady of the Sycamore (…), (she) who does what (…) desires, honoured one by the Great God, Lord of the West (…) Osiris, Lord of Busiris, honoured one by Anubis, he who is upon his hill (…) who is in front of the Divine Booth (…) Western necropolis (…), Watetkhethor, her beautiful name is Seshseshet.".
On the south wall he is in the act of launching his throwing stick at a flock of waterfowl, which take flight from the thicket of reeds. This time in the lower register, immediately below the reeds, hippos are attacked by crocodiles . Towards the left, 

cattle are herded through the water, above which other men wrestle to control other cattle ; the text above them, on the left, states: "Oh herdsman! May you be watchful against that aquatic animal, which is in the water, and which comes as an invisible one. Pay great attention to him."; and on the right: "Row, hurry, comrade." and "Herdsmen, on the water.". Above the scenes with cattle, men water and tend plants, in what can only be a cultivated area (perhaps a garden). Further up still is the transport of fowl in cages ().



It is uncertain whether these are leisure activities or whether they have some other significance.





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