English: Egyptian, wrestling scene on east wall, tomb of Baqt at Beni Hasan. Necropolis in use 11th and 12th Dynasties (ca. 2000 BCE). Upper left portion of a nineteenth century line draft reproducing original mural in tomb, which was a polychrome of red human figures within Egyptian-style horizontal registers, showing successive moments of a wrestling match between two people, whose skin tones, white and black in the draft, were two shades of the red used on the tomb wall.
See p. 47 (tomb 15) & Plate V in Percy Newberry, Beni Hasan Part II, Archaeological Survey of Egypt, F. Griffith Ed., Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1893; downloadable pdf copy from University of Heidelberg at
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