Here is located Menna, seated on a folding stool with the top covered by an animal skin. The seat rests on a reed mat. Above and behind Menna, the text states: "Enjoying himself with the work of the fields, by the great confidant of the Lord of the Two Lands, in [his] wish [……] the eyes of the King in every place, Overseer of the estate [of Amon, Men]na, justified before the great god." Here he carries out his official position with his staff of office in his left hand and a folded piece of cloth in the other. His face and several portions of the text have been destroyed. As usual, he is dressed in a long semi-transparent garment over a short white pleated kilt, with the end of the long sash-belt hanging down the side of the stool. He is adorned with a broad necklace and wrist-bracelets.
http://www.egyptraveluxe.com/cairo_half_day_tour_to_cairo_egyptian_museum.php From the Middle Kingdom until the 18th Dynasty, representations are found of a parasitic bindweed associated with the stems of papyrus, . Its representations increase and refine themselves during the Amarnian period because of the naturalistic leaning to nature; but it is in Ramesside times, and more particularly that of Ramesses II, that the images become more beautiful and most detailed. The plant is frequently attached to the stem of the papyrus, or to bouquets, but being also able to, more rarely, exist separately. After the 20th Dynasty, if the theme persists, the quality of the representations decrease (as do all more representations of nature). This success under the Ramesseses is probably linked with the specific beliefs of that time, and notably the eminent place that the solar cults occupy. The nature of the plant has been under debate a long time ...
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