The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia in a Kiosk, Theban Tomb TT 226

Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia in a Kiosk, Theban Tomb TT 226

Period:: New Kingdom
Dynasty:: Dynasty 18
Reign:: reign of Amenhotep III
Date:: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Geography:: Country of Origin Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb TT 226
Medium:: Tempera on paper
Dimensions:: facsimile h. 226 cm (89 in); w. 162 cm (63 3/4 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 2.343 m (92 1/4 in); w. 1.638 m (64 1/2 in); th. 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in)
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1915
Accession Number:: 15.5.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 135

Description

This facsimile painting copies the focal point of an offering scene in the tomb of an official (TT 226) at Thebes. It represents Amenhotep III enthroned beneath a kiosk. The king's mother Mutemwia stands behind him. Beneath the kiosk is a row of foreignors from Nubia and western Asia who praise the king with upraised arms. The name of the tomb owner is not preserved.
The facsimile was painted at the tomb in 1914 by Nina deGaris Davis for the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.
Provenance

Painted at Qurna by Nina de Garis Davies for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914.
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Who
Nina de Garis Davies (157)
What
Paper (23,969)

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2000-1000 B.C. (18,709)
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