Note 236 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Maspero, Études sur quelques Peintures Funéraires. Mariette, in describing this bas-relief (Notice du Musée, No. 903), observes that these funeral dances are still in vogue in most of the villages of Upper Egypt. The bas-reliefs from Sakkarah could not, however, as he says, render the piercing shrieks with which these dances are accompanied.