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“It seems clear from numerous tomb-paintings and reliefs, especially those dating to the New Kingdom, that ancient Egyptians of the tomb-owning classes enjoyed entertaining large groups of relatives and friends at banquets. The responsibility for preparing for the banquet would have fallen largely on the lady of the house, who would have supervised the thorough cleaning of her house and seen to it that large amounts of bread and beer had been made, that many jars of wine had been cooled and that a variety of meat, fowl and other foodstuffs had been cooked… She might have arranged flowers around the house with her own hands; and she would have made certain that garlands of flowers were ready to place around the necks of guests as they arrived. Cones of perfumed wax would have been prepared to place on the head of each guest.

During the banquet, men and women ate in the same room. Judging from the evidence on the walls of New Kingdom tombs, servants - usually young, lissome girls wearing nothing but a girdle around their hips - piled them with food and drink, and renewed the wax cones as they melted in the heat…”

― Women in Ancient Egypt, by Barbara Watterson