Find Spot: Grave of the Kegemni, Saqqara, Egypt

Date of Illustration: ca. 2500 BCE

Description Scene showing boat in a sacrificial procession crossing the Nile top of which is damaged. Trumpeter blowing instrument but only bell end of this visible. Said by Hickmann to be the earliest Egyptian illustration of a trumpet.

Citations: Hickmann 1961: p.40, Abb. 18

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