[ Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon / Giovanni Battista Belzoni ] Researches and operations in Egypt, Nubia, &c. / Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Travel of Giovanni Battista Belzoni

10. Painting with dancers and instruments (original source)

Ermopoli - Egypt (Temple of Gournou)
Title
Painting with dancers and instruments (original source)
Short description
Giovanni Battista Belzoni is in Gournou and describes the paintings of a tomb. Here six maidens are depicted dancing accompanied by tambourines, reed instruments, and guitars.
Text on source
The same day we visited another mummy-pit, which I had opened six months before. The construction is somewhat similar to what I have just described, a portico and a subterraneous cavity where the mummies are. Here the paintings are beautiful, not only for their preservation, but for the novelty of their figures. There are two harps, one with nine strings, and the other with fourteen, and several other strange representations : in particular, six dancing girls, with fifes, tambourins, pipes of reeds, guitars, &c.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 230
Date
1817 08 13
Observations on the events description
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
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Place
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Sounds
7
How to quote
Murarotto E., "Painting with dancers and instruments (original source)" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2025 01 04.

doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.21

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