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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 heidelberg digital library http://digi. Ub. Uni-heidelberg. De/diglit/newberry1893bd2.