thatlittleegyptologist:

magical-flying-moron:

thatlittleegyptologist:

grandegyptianmuseum:

Toilet of Noblewomen

Detail of a wall relief from the Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), vizier of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1450 BC. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna/Valley of the Nobles, West Thebes.

A better title might be ‘Noblewomen attending a banquet in honor of the Vizier Rekhmire’s mother, Bet, with wishes of good health and happiness being spoken (n kA=k ir xrw nfr)’ rather than ‘toilet’, which doesn’t invoke a nice image in English.

#toilet would fit for what they’re doing as a verb but ‘a toilet of noblewomen’ is not a good sentence #I mean one of the female lutists who is cut off from this picture is tuning her lute and smelling a lotus #the caption next to her is basically ‘I swear to Ma'at I’m so high it makes me need to get drunk’

so uh… what would that be in hieroglyphs?

“Is it possible that this is Maat before whom we feel such a desire to drink?”

Unfortunately it’s a bit too small for me to be able to read the caption. Starts with ‘in […]m maat […]w […]’ If I had a clearer picture I’d use it.