In this illustration we are showing that the last ruler of the
21st Dynasty, Si Amon, was the same person whose tomb was found by Ahmed Fakhri at the Siwa Oasis who had arranged for the funeral of Peinuzem II.Leather canopy of the funeral tent of Peinuzem II.
The leather canopy used by Si-Amon to put to rest Peinuzem II has the same style and motifs in its design as the tomb ceiling of Si-Amon showing that this Si-Amon was the same person who had laid Peinuzem II to his final resting place. The evidence also shows that Peinuzem II belongs into the early 3rd, not the 11th century BC. The tomb of Si Amon was discovered in 1940 in the Siwa Oasis. Ahmad Fakhri thought at the time that there were two Si-Amons not knowing revised chronology,
one in the 11th and the other in the 3rd century BC. [H.W. Villiers-Stuart, `Egypt after the War'; Ahmad Fakhri, `Siwa Oasis', Fig. 79]Compare these vultures from the tomb of Peinuzem II with the vultures in the tomb ceiling of Si Amon to realize they are stylistically the same and probably were painted by the same artist. At any rate it is very unlikely that artists 800 years apart would produce such similar work. A true difference in vulture paintings of 800 years would be between artists of the Hyksos period, or perhaps Ahmose of the 18th Dynasty, with these of Si-Amon, to help us understand how such art would have changed.
Similarities of vultures consist of straight line of wingspread as opposed to most other vulture paintings where birds have angled wings. Other similarities are the talons holding the feathers with their characteristic dark and light bands, the curvature of the head, talons and arrangement of feathers.
Upper: Vulture from the ceiling of the tomb of Si-Amon, conv. 3rd century BC.
Lower: Vulture from the leather canopy of the funeral tent of Peinuzem II, conv. 10th cent. BC.
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