Figure descriptions
Five figures gather around a man’s covered corpse. All depicted figures are dressed
in flowing robes and either head scarves
or hats. The men all have dark beards. A man kneels on the floor next to the corpse’s
head. He looks at a rising cloud of smoke
which emits from a small lamp on the floor. The shadowy illusion of a man appears
to stand within the smoke. The figure resembles
the corpse lying in the background. Two women sit on the floor in front of the lamp.
The first woman turns away from the viewer; she
leans her body into the second woman and holds onto her arm, moving her body away
from the lamp. The second woman is depicted in
profile view; she gazes at the man in the smoke. A man and a woman sit in the background
on either side of the corpse. The man also
looks at the smoke while the woman turns away. 2/3-page illustration contained within
a single-ruled border.
