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living

Nebamun Hunting Fowl:

from Ekphrasis Ancient Art Volume I
by T. Jenese Thompson

this day and then
Art settles a fanciful
belief of an elite existence, to pose
about the forest as conductor
neck-dressed
sarong and baton orchestrate the ordeal
of the hunt holiday
superior to the feline snatch, atop
said scenery to claim
a prized fowl
meanwhile the audience
and the fans
and the fins of the fish below
are still
center-staged
well-scripted
Art Bibliography Info:

and nature performs as dreamt

Nebamun fowling in the marshes, Tomb-chapel of
Nebamun, c. 1350 B.C.E., 18th Dynasty, paint on
plaster, 83 x 98 cm, Thebes
© Trustees of the British Museum

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