Pictorial Evidence Chart

8. Pictorial Evidence Chart Activity

Meryt's bed Kha

Examine a range of sources - ostraca and discoveries made at the Dier el Medina tombs of Senedjem, Kha and Meyrt ......

Working with one or two partners, create a pictorial chart which matches some surviving evidence to each of the following:

- religious beliefs

- commerce and trade

With each image you find, briefly describe the image, inscription or artefact, and note what it tells you about that aspect of Dier el Medina society.

- housing and furniture

- burial beliefs and practices

- leisure

- everyday life in the village

- food

- the workers’ strike and tomb robberies http://xy2.org/lenka/Nicholsonmuseum.html

- the role of women: wife and mother

- working lives

- clothing and jewellery

(Place your images and text under the above headings.)

http://xy2.org/lenka/TurinKha.html

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/deirelmedina/deirelmedina.html

http://xy2.org/lenka/Collections.html