Margaret Bunson's scientific contributions

Citations

... On the chapel of the mastaba of Akhouthotep at Saqqara, Dynasty V (PM, III 2 , p. 636). In the upper register we can see two groups of male musicians, from the left a male-harpist, playing an arched-shovel sharp harp seated in front of him is a chironomist, a male flautist and another chironomist we can recognize the word Hst for singer-"bnt" for harp On the west wall of the funeral chapel of the mastaba of Nikauhor at Saqqara dating from Dynasty V (Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (PM, III 2 , p. 498; Arroyo, 2003, p. 307, Gadalla, 2017. In the upper register are three male musician groups, from the left the first group consists of a chironomist seated in front of him is a male harpist, his instrument resting against his left shoulder, the neck is unusually decorated with three dark vertical lines, representing the four stems which form a bundle of papyrus, above the chironomist and the harpist the text reads "Hst bnt sqr mt" singing and playing with the harp. ...
... Honey is a natural product produced by bees and used in Egypt not only as a sweetener but also associated with medical practices, and was deemed a poison for ghosts, demons, evil spirits, and the dead, representing a symbol of resurrection [25]. The first crude examples of the honeybee hieroglyphs were carved by the Egyptians of the first dynasty, in approximately 3000 B.C.E [2][3][4]26]. ...