The central Egyptian sources of information regarding banquets are the depictions of the funerary banquet in the tombs of Theban officials dating from the 18th dynasty (15th -14th cents. BC). The early pictures show the tomb's occupant with his spouse as the host in front of a table loaded with dishes of food and faced by their guests in several rows. Servants adorn them with flowers and bring wine…
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Sallaberger, Walther (Leipzig),
Felber, Heinz (Leipzig),
Schmitt-Pantel, Pauline (Paris) and
Binder, Gerhard (Bochum),
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