the banquet scene (first image) shows niankhkhnum clean-shaven (left) and khnumhotep (wearing a short beard) seated facing one another across comestibles spread between, each with his own breadboard table. set off by a baseline, this is read separately from the two registers of entertainment below them. a different upper register substitutes in the contemporary saqqara tomb of ti (next image), where no food is present with the owner, who is seated holding a scepter, his wife (drawn at half-scale) by his feet.