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The frieze is fairly simple. it is
a repetition of the same hieroglyph over and over, all the way round the top of the tomb
walls. The hieroglyph is known as kheker, and means decoration, so it is only fitting that
it be uses as a decorative tool in Senneferi's tomb. The hieroglyph consists of two legs
supporting a circle. From the top of the circle, two curved lines reach up, and are
interrupted by a collection of horizontal bars, the lines then continue out the top of the
bars, curving in the opposite direction as before. Underneath the actual shape is a bar,
running continuously beneath the kheker frieze, changing colour as it goes. The four
colours used are: blue, green, red, and yellow. The frieze uses all these colours in
sequence, making the frieze very bright and colourful.
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To reproduce the frieze, we used an overhead projection of the pattern to trace it onto the wall. We then painted the frieze. When we were about half way through the process of reproducing the frieze on our particular wall, we realised that our frieze was different in size to all the other walls. We were worried we were going to have to do the whole thing again, but we were told that the Egyptian artists experienced the same problems, and the frieze on one of the walls in Senneferi's tomb is actually smaller than the rest! Putting up the frieze was a very monotonous and laborious process, but now that it is finished it looks great and was well worth the effort. |
