An Ancient Egyptian wall painting depicting a man kneeling under a date palm tree full of ripe fruits, and (seemingly) drinking water (from a river?)...
The tree is Zaghloul, or red dates palm, with fruits with a deep red to burgundy skin – resemble giant red grapes. They are native to Egypt and are synonymous with Egyptian autumn...
The harvest season for Zaghloul dates starts in September...
Just before that, while the date trees are still laden with fruit, Nile flood peaks...
I talk about Nile Flood mythology in many of my posts...
I talk about another tree calendar marker for Nile Flood, Sycamore fig, in my post "Sycamore tree goddess"
That's it. To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...
