Fragment of a tomb painting with two women and a boy
Fragment of a tomb painting with two women and a boy

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Ancient Mediterranean Art

Fragment of a tomb painting with two women and a boy,

ca. 1291–1185 BCE

Egyptian
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1295–1186 BCE, ca. 1550–1070 BCE
y1993-6

Information

Title
Fragment of a tomb painting with two women and a boy
Dates

ca. 1291–1185 BCE

Medium
Painted gesso over mud plaster
Dimensions
31.6 x 25.5 x 3.7 cm (12 7/16 x 10 1/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Classical Purchase Fund
Object Number
y1993-6
Place Excavated

Africa, Egypt, likely Deir el-Medina

Culture
Egyptian (ancient)
Period
Nineteenth Dynasty
Type
tombs, funerary art, paintings
Materials
mud-plaster, gesso
Subject
boys, figures (representations), worship, hieroglyphics, women, wigs

Purchased from H.A.C. Kunst der Antike, Basel; said to be previously from a German private collection.

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