Griffith Institute w&d 160 | Golden Carp caught in a fishing net
Artist
Howard Carter.
Date
1893.
Site
Deir el-Bersha.
Tomb of Djehutihotep. Temp. Sesostris II and Sesostris III.
Hall (Inner Room). North wall, lower part of wall with two registers.
Deir el-Bersha.
Tomb of Djehutihotep. Temp. Sesostris II and Sesostris III.
Hall (Inner Room). North wall, lower part of wall with two registers.
Description
Carp inside a golden fishing net.
From scene: Second register, netting fish, third register, three rows feeding, cooking and bringing cranes, geese and other birds and fish.
Carp inside a golden fishing net.
From scene: Second register, netting fish, third register, three rows feeding, cooking and bringing cranes, geese and other birds and fish.
Technical data
Watercolour.
340 mm x 152 mm.
Annotations:
Mount, recto,
'Howard Carter 1893.' [signature and date];
'El Bersheh I. Pl: XXII.'; 'Fish caught in a golden net'.
Mount, verso,
'El Bersheh'; 'Tehutihotep'; 'No. 59'; 'by Howard Carter'; 'IV. 180 (17)'; 'detail on El-Bersheh I, pl.XXII.'; '19 x 12¾'.
Watercolour.
340 mm x 152 mm.
Annotations:
Mount, recto,
'Howard Carter 1893.' [signature and date];
'El Bersheh I. Pl: XXII.'; 'Fish caught in a golden net'.
Mount, verso,
'El Bersheh'; 'Tehutihotep'; 'No. 59'; 'by Howard Carter'; 'IV. 180 (17)'; 'detail on El-Bersheh I, pl.XXII.'; '19 x 12¾'.
Griffith Institute w&d
160
160
Publications
See PM iv.180(17)-(18) | TopBib 409-060-010-020; GI w&d Deir el-Bersha Project; Newberry, P. E. El Bersheh i [1894], 31 pls. xx, xxii; De Meyer, M. & Cortebeeck, K. Djehoetihotep. 100 jaar opgravingen in Egypte | Djehoutihotep. 100 ans de fouilles en Égypte (2015), 150, 152-3 fig. 85b (Griffith Institute w&d 160).
See PM iv.180(17)-(18) | TopBib 409-060-010-020; GI w&d Deir el-Bersha Project; Newberry, P. E. El Bersheh i [1894], 31 pls. xx, xxii; De Meyer, M. & Cortebeeck, K. Djehoetihotep. 100 jaar opgravingen in Egypte | Djehoutihotep. 100 ans de fouilles en Égypte (2015), 150, 152-3 fig. 85b (Griffith Institute w&d 160).
One of Howard Carter's most memorable copies is of a single Golden Carp in a fishing net which ten men are pulling into towards a bank. It comes from the second scene down on the top left-hand side of the North Wall of the Hall (Newberry's plates xx and xxii). The species is probably Barbus bynni, which still occurs in the Nile.
Photography Jenni Navratil, assisted by Hana Navratilova
Editing and web pages Elizabeth Fleming, assisted by Francisco Bosch-Puche & Cat Warsi.