A wall-relief from ca. 1500 BCE depicting Egyptians gathering and preparing flax. To properly do so, the seeds were removed, the stalks were bound into bundles, dirt was knocked off the roots, and full-grown flax pulled up by roots. Egyptians used flax as a fiber for making linen, and also used the oil produced by the seeds for medicine. This image was originally taken from a print by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (1930).
Authors
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction
- Collection
- Instructional lantern slides
- Place Discussed
- Africa, Egypt
- Provider
- Empire State Digital Network
- Published in
- Egypt
- Reference
- 880; NYSA_A3045-78_16972; A3045
- Rights
- This image is provided for education and research purposes. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rests with the user.
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/a31b63e6d70c8335ce2a9909ab19a9ab
