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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Island. The inhabitants of these towns and villages use both modern
paint, purchased at the market, and traditional pigments, gathered from
the landscape, to decorate their houses.
![Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned in text.](../static/images/fulcher/fig 1.jpg "Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned in text.")
![Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned in text.](../static/images/fulcher/fig1.jpg "Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned in text.")
**~~Figure 1. Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned
in text.~~**
@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ gum Arabic can be harvested, grow in the local area, and were also
present in ancient times, as evidenced by plant remains from Amara
West.[^14]
![Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).](../static/images/fulcher/fig 2.jpg "Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).")
![Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).](../static/images/fulcher/fig2.jpg "Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).")
**~~Figure 2. Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).~~**
@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ piece of leather with the hair still attached to paint the *gir* onto
the walls, or a sheep's tail. One family poured *gir* over the walls
from a teapot.
![House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.](../static/images/fulcher/fig 3.jpg "House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.")
![House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.](../static/images/fulcher/fig3.jpg "House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.")
**~~Figure 3. House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.~~**
@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ have mainly used their hands, or small metal or stone tools. A piece of
flat stone picked up in the desert would make an effective shovel and
obviate the need to carry a tool from the town and back.
![Sofiha can containing gir.](../static/images/fulcher/fig 4.jpg "Sofiha can containing gir.")
![Sofiha can containing gir.](../static/images/fulcher/fig4.jpg "Sofiha can containing gir.")
**~~Figure 4. Sofiha can containing gir.~~**
@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ removal of a tail, or acquiring a piece of skin with wool attached after
an animal had been slaughtered. Soft tissue animal products would be
very unlikely to survive in the archaeological record.
![Ancient Egyptian paintbrush dating to the New Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.](../static/images/fulcher/fig 5.jpg "Ancient Egyptian paintbrush dating to the New Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.")
![Ancient Egyptian paintbrush dating to the New Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.](../static/images/fulcher/fig5.jpg "Ancient Egyptian paintbrush dating to the New Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.")
**~~Figure 5. Ancient Egyptian paintbrush dating to the New Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.~~**
@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ curl around it, and how the weight feels when it is brought down. The
arm muscle quickly begins to ache, and small injuries to the grinding
hand would have been hard to avoid.
![Grinding red ochre on a small grindstone. Left - Piece of red ochre to be ground. Right -- after grinding, pigment has spilled onto the floor and there is no working space left on the grindstone.](../static/images/fulcher/fig 6.jpg "Grinding red ochre on a small grindstone. Left - Piece of red ochre to be ground. Right -- after grinding, pigment has spilled onto the floor and there is no working space left on the grindstone.")
![Grinding red ochre on a small grindstone. Left - Piece of red ochre to be ground. Right -- after grinding, pigment has spilled onto the floor and there is no working space left on the grindstone.](../static/images/fulcher/fig6.jpg "Grinding red ochre on a small grindstone. Left - Piece of red ochre to be ground. Right -- after grinding, pigment has spilled onto the floor and there is no working space left on the grindstone.")
**~~Figure6. Grinding red ochre on a small grindstone. Left - Piece of red ochre to be ground. Right -- after grinding, pigment has spilled onto the floor and there is no working space left on the grindstone.~~**
@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ way a house is laid out and decorated could be referred to as a
homescape, the way the space is manipulated by the addition of colour
(and other elements) to curate the house into a home within a community.
Acknowledgements
**Acknowledgements**
Research was conducted during a Collaborative Doctoral Award at UCL and
the British Museum, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ the British Museum, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
British Museum Amara West Project, funded by the Qatar-Sudan
Archaeological Project, Leverhulme Trust, and British Academy.
References
**References**
Binder, Michaela. "The New Kingdom Tombs at Amara West:
Funerary Perspectives on Nubian -- Egyptian Interactions." In *Nubia in
@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ W. Conkey, pp. 93--131. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Wenzel, Marian. *House Decoration in Nubia*. London: Duckworth,
1972.
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**Images available here:**
<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnQUQ06LWl5ygpFpxGL_Y3uMI9k7fQ?e=BtO2CH>
@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ Wenzel, Marian. *House Decoration in Nubia*. London: Duckworth,
"Coloured Materials Used in Elephantine: Evolution and Continuity
from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period"; Kemp and
Stevens, *Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations in the
Main City (Grid 12 and the House of Ranefer, N49.18). Volume I.*.
Main City (Grid 12 and the House of Ranefer, N49.18). Volume I*.
[^21]: Çamurcuoğlu, *The Wall Paintings of Çatalhöyük
(Turkey)*, pp. 240-246.

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