The tomb of Ankhtifi at Moalla In the bottom two registers, cooking scenes are distinguished by their originality and their relatively good conservation (see cm-216). • The top one of these shows two busy men around a fire of burning coals. The character on the left, sitting on a small wooden cubic seat, holds a long stick at the end of which is staked a set of ribs, held over the embers. Opposite, his assistant is venting the fire to revive the embers and to maintain the heat. Between the two characters is a curious object which seems to finish in duck head or a spatula (see cm-219). The use that could be made of this instrument remains undetermined. • The scene of the lower register shows a variant of the fashion of cooking: a pot, probably in terracotta, rest on a support, with below it an active fire. Here meat is not roasted, but boiled. On the right of the scene, a man fans the fire to maintain it, whilst moving the other hand, with the help of a stick, to do the culinary preparation. The left character, holding a piece of meat with the right hand, is preparing to plunge it in the pot. With the other hand, he carries to his mouth a piece of meat in order to measure the degree of cooking (see cm-221 and cm-223). It is exceptional to find a scene as natural and realistic in a tomb.
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