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We are inside a time machine; the walls are filled with descriptions of every day scenes from a time long gone. Mr. Ti's Ka takes us around and starts to explain...

Fishing and hunting with Mr. Ti See larger photo

Here is Ti out in the marshes hunting and fishing. The vertical lines behind him are papyrus and other plants in the marshes and he stands himself on a papyrusboat.

In front of him is another boat with hunters and the reason Ti is shown higher than the others is because what can be called "value based perspective". Meaning that the important parts get highlighted and enlarged and less important parts get a smaller presentation. As Ti got the leading role in his tomb, it's natural that he is shown as the largest person in the picture. Under the boats we see fish and even a hippopotamus.

Bringing the cattle over a channel See larger photo

Its time to take the herd home and in the top row we find five persons from Ti's farm moving rams. Note the winding horns; it's the same as one can see on the creator god Khmun. In the lower row its cattle crossing a channel, but this part is seen best on the next picture.

Ancient trick; how to get the cattle fast over the channel See larger photo

Behind we see the bulls are coming and in front of them three cows. They are crossing a channel and one can see how well the water is illustrated in the relief pattern covering the legs of the cows.

See the cow in the middle holding her head a bit high as she is mooing? Well that's exactly what she does, so look at the person who walk in front of her and I will explain why.

He is carrying something on his back, and that's the calf of the mooing cow. This was the technique used when one should get the cattle to move over channels as fast as possible, as sometimes there were crocodiles that got a good dinner if they were not quick enough.

Birds in the herd See larger photo

Egyptians today as then love birds for dinner, here is a detail showing some of the birds at Ti's farm.

Workshop, 2400 BC See larger photo

There were many professions in ancient Egypt and we know from the remains that they all had extremely skilled workers. On this relief we see them making a table in the upper row. Behind is a person cutting wood and below more people in the workshop.

For the two who makes the table, look at the hieroglyph between them, the one that still have some black colour left. It's a square with an opening below. This is the hieroglyph for "house" as it got walls all around and the opening is the door of the house.

Full activity in the mastaba of Mr. Ti See larger photo

Many people are described working in the mastaba-tomb of Ti as here from the end wall in the small side chamber.

The two rows in the middle of the wall where the people are not reddish but lighter brow, that's women making bread.

Allow yourself good time to see this tomb, as when the bread is ready - who knows, maybe we will be invited for a Tea with Mr. Ti?

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