The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

a cooking scene is distinguished by its originality and its relatively good conservation

• The middle register shows two men busy around a brazier of burning coals. The character on the left, sitting on a small wooden cubic seat, holds a long stick at the end of which is staked a plate of ribs, held over the live coals. Opposite, his assistant is fanning the fire to revive the live coals and to maintain the heat. Between the two characters is a curious object which seems to finish in a duck head or a spatula (see cm-219). The use that could be made of this instrument remains undetermined.

The tomb of Ankhtifi at Mo'alla

The tomb belongs to the provincial governor (nomarch - being the leader of a nome) and military leader Ankhtifi who exercised the power in the south of the Upper Egypt under the IXth Herakleopolitain Dynasty (around 2100 B.C.).

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