King Ikhnaton Animals

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The fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nebamum was created around 1450 B.C.E before King Ikhnaton became ruler. When he became king, rules for the artists became relaxed, and more realistic. However, this picture, which was created before the king Ikhnaton periods, still contains the strict rules for artists. One of the rule for artists was they had to fill the whole spaces with human figures, animal, plants, or writing. Because of the rule, the picture from tomb of Nebamun includes various kinds of paintings, and it's hard to find empty spaces. In the picture we found many different animals such as cat, birds, and fish. Those animals are depicted as naturally as possible contrary to human figures. When the artist draw human, there

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