Banquet imagery has a long and continuous tradition in Egypt, already expressed in Pharaonic wall paintings in the second millennium BC. Equally important was the depiction of banquets all over the Roman Empire, used as motif in wall paintings, mosaics and funerary reliefs. While banquet scenes are nearly absent from Roman-period Egypt, there are a few examples of relief carvings from the first and second century that depict a reclining figure and these examples will form the core of this discussion.