The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Men Splitting Papyrus, Tomb of Puyemre

Men Splitting Papyrus, Tomb of Puyemre

Period:: New Kingdom
Dynasty:: Dynasty 18
Reign:: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date:: ca. 1473–1458 B.C.
Geography:: Country of Origin Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes
Medium:: Tempera on Paper
Dimensions:: facsimile: h. 40 cm (15 3/4 in); w. 51.5 cm (20 1/4 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 43.5 cm (17 1/8 in); w. 54.9 cm (21 5/8 in)
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number:: 30.4.10

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Description

This facsimile painting copies a detail from a scene of men harvesting and working papyrus in the tomb of Puyemre (TT 39) at Thebes. Facsimile 30.4.11 illustrates another part of this scene.
Provenance

Painted at Qurna by Hugh R. Hopgood for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914-1916. Brought to New York and accessioned, 1930.
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Who
Hugh R. Hopgood (42)
What
Paper (23,968)

Tempera (1,401)

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Where
Africa (33,501)

Egypt (29,889)

Upper Egypt (13,662)

Thebes (10,570)
When
2000-1000 B.C. (18,709)
In the Museum
Egyptian Art (26,254)
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Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.
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