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National Geographic : 1977 Mar
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supplicating gestures, just as "Oh great village women still do. SElsewhere in the tomb, shepherd.... seated dignitaries and relatives, portrayed in the W EEPING SERVANTS finest of limestone bas-reliefs, call to their dead attend the funeral. Here, master, Ramose, in his tomb idealized as youths (left), at Thebes, "Come and return Ramose's mother, Ipuia, sits to us." They fling dust on beside his father, Neby. their heads and make Ramose commissioned the art himself about 1380 B.C., during his turbulent lifetime as vizier, or prime minister, to two pharaohs. These fine scenes proved to be wishful thinking. Once the second most powerful man in the kingdom, Ramose disappeared into obscurity. How he died, when and where, remain a mystery. THOMASJ. ABERCROMBIE 303
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