Talk:Tomb of Nebamun
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The Tomb of Nebamun is the burial place of a middle-ranking official from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt who lived around 1350 BCE and worked at the vast temple complex near Thebes. The richly decorated tomb was discovered in 1820 by a young Greek, Giovanni d'Athanasi, an agent for the English Egyptologist Henry Salt. Portions of the plaster frescoes were hacked off the walls and sold to the British Museum the following year. This polychrome fragment depicts date palms, sycamore trees, and a pool teeming with life. D'Athanasi died in poverty without revealing the precise location of the tomb. Painting credit: unknown; photographed by Yann Forget |
Location
[edit]Am curious how the tomb's location can be in the British Museum (as stated in the Infobox) when the article states that the location was never passed on to anyone by the tomb's finder.
Or am I missing something? 2600:8800:C89:EA00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 04:38, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hi 2600:8800:C89:EA00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D, this is just based on my interpretation of the article, but it looks like d'Athanasi found the tomb and then sold some frescoes from the tomb to the British Museum, but never revealed the location where he found the tomb. I agree that this makes it seem as if the location is not the British Museum; rather, the British Museum is the current location of some of the the frescoes from the tomb, but the location of the tomb itself is still unknown. palindrome§ǝɯoɹpuᴉןɐd 04:43, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
- 2600:8800:C89:EA00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D, yeah, I'm not sure if the "Present location" field should be changed. palindrome§ǝɯoɹpuᴉןɐd 05:00, 24 April 2021 (UTC)