Cat Killing a Serpent

Artist:: Charles K. Wilkinson

Period:: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom

Dynasty:: Dynasty 19

Reign:: reign of Ramesses I–Ramesses II

Date:: A.D. 1920–1921; original ca. 1295–1213 B.C.

Geography:: Original Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1)

Medium:: Tempera on paper

Dimensions:: Facsimile H. 47 cm (18 1/2 in.); w. 84.5 cm (33 1/4 in.) scale 1:1 Framed H. 50.8 cm (20 in.); w. 87 cm (34 1/4 in.)

Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1930

Accession Number:: 30.4.1

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 135

This facsimile painting copies a scene in the tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1) at Deir el-Medina in western Thebes. The cat killing the serpent is associated with Chapter 17 in the Book of the Dead.

Painted at Deir el Medina by Charles K. Wilkinson for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920-1921. Brought to New York and accessioned, 1930.

Wilkinson, Charles K. 1979. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum's Collection of Facsimiles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, new ser., vol. 36, no. 4 (Spring), New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 14–15, fig. 16, cover.

Wilkinson, Charles K. and Marsha Hill 1983. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Timelines
Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.

Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 4 (Spring, 1979)]

Department

Egyptian Art (27,372)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Charles K. Wilkinson (97)

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