Mereruka seated in front of an easel, with a brush in his right hand and a paint palette over his shoulder. He is painting the three seasons of the Egyptian year . They are shown in the form of three seated characters, each holding a cartouche enclosing four hieroglyphic crescent moons (the sign for "month") ; thus they symbolically represent the four months of each season. Starting at the end furthest from Mereruka, they are the seasons of : inundation (Akhet), accompanied by the hieroglyphic sign for "good" (nefer) ; germination (Peret), along with the sign for "offering" (hetep) ; finally, summer (Shemu), and the sign for "life" (ankh).
Forward of Mereruka, and in a smaller separate panel facing him, stands
"His son, lector-priest and scribe of the God's Book, Khenu", his instruments in his hand.
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