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The frieze at the top
of our wall is called the kheker frieze and looks like a repeated bundle of papyrus or
reed, but is in fact a hieroglyphic symbol for decoration. In Senneferi=s tomb (TT99) the kheker frieze runs all the way
across the wall except for the gap in which the double scene (over the niche) overlaps it.
In TT99 the kheker frieze does not quite go all the way to the ceiling and is generally
all intact.
We painted the kheker frieze first, as did all the other teams.
We marked the block border at the bottom of the frieze and this is what we used to get the
overhead straight and in line. We then had a line drawing on an overhead plastic sheet and
with this we traced it onto the wall.
After initially drawing it with text (of which I did most because I was the
tallest and nearly broke my neck in the process from all the looking up!) We all painted
it. Only after we had complete the whole frieze did Ms Angelo tell us that 
The frieze was fairly easy to reproduce, getting the colours and
pattern easily from pictures of the tomb. The only real problem we incurred was the way
Hannah, while painting, mysteriously kept missing bits! But that was easily rectified.
Erika