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Fresco of metalworkers from the Tomb of Nebamun at Thebes

y1955-3253
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Object Number
y1955-3253
Medium
Plaster with chaff temper; fine white surface coating.
Dates

ca. 1385–1370 B.C.

Dimensions
20 × 33 cm (7 7/8 × 13 in.) mount: 23.3 × 37 cm (9 3/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Culture
Egyptian, 3000 BCE - 395 CE
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Place Excavated

Africa, Egypt, Theban Necropolis, Thebes

Type
frescoes, paintings
Subject
sphinxes, metalworkers, vessels (containers), figures (representations), protomai capitals, hieroglyphics, tombs
Materials
plaster, paint

Excavated from Tomb 181 of Metropolitan Museum's expedition at Thebes; purchased from Mathias Komor in 1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18074770

Norman de Garis Davies,<em> The tomb of two sculptors at Thebes</em>, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925). , p. 61-2, pls. XI-XIII

2509 1925
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3809022

<p><em>The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection</em> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)</p>, no. 26 (illus.)

1824 1956
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i291443

"Recent acquisitions," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>15, no. 1 (1956): p. 26-27., p. 27

1832 1956
https://www.jstor.org/stable/503055

William Kelly Simpson, "Reviewed work: Ancient art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection by Oscar White Muscarella "<em>, American journal of archaeology </em>80, no. 3 (Summer, 1976)., p. 318

2510 1976

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