Egyptian tomb scene, illustration. This scene shows women preparing bread and men slaughtering cattle, as depicted on the walls of the tomb of Djar. It dates from the Middle Kingdom (Dynasty 11), during the reign of Montuhotep II, in around 2060-2010 BC. This tomb is in Thebes, Upper Egypt. This illustration (tempera on paper) was produced in 1930 by Egyptologist Nina de Garis Davies (1881-1965) on an expedition for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.