Anne-Claire Salmas
This talk will focus on two original and personal artworks by Bernard Bruyère. Both of them are inspired by some funerary scenes from Deir el-Medina’s tombs and have been painted by the archaeologist directly onto the walls of the IFAO dig-house on-site. The first painting, located in one of the lower-level rooms of the house, consists of a reproduction of a figure from Ipuy’s tomb (TT 217), while the second painting, located in Bruyère’s old room, parodies a unique scene from TT 2 - TT 2B: the embalming of a fish. This parody, little known outside the circle of “Deir el-Medina people” and French scholars, and usually called the “bouillabaisse recipe”, bears witness to Bruyère’s artistic skills and shows another side of his character, more playful and funnier.