Agricultural scenes
in
Theban tomb TT 1
at
Deir el-Medina,
belonging to
Sennedjem, of the
reign of Sety I. The
setting is the
mythical Fields of
Ialu, where
Sennedjem,
accompanied by his
wife Iyneferti, is
shown reaping grain,
plowing with a pair
of dappled cattle,
and harvesting flax.
Only the heads of
grain were cut off
with a short-handled
wooden sickle, whose
serrated blade was
formed of sharp
flakes of flint; the
remaining
much-valued straw
was pulled up later.
Many sickles and
whips of the types
used by Sennedjem
are preserved.


