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  • Facsimile of a scene depicting the afterlife (Tomb of Sennedjem) (detail), ca. 1922
    Charles K. Wilkinson (American, born Britain, 1897–1986)
    Tempera on paper

    H. 54 in. (137.2 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.2)

    The east wall of Sennedjem's vaulted crypt is decorated with a vignette that illustrates spell number 110 in the Book of the Dead. Here, in a photograph taken at the site, Sennedjem and Iineferti are shown harvesting grain, sowing seeds, and pulling flax in the abundant fields of the next world.

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  • Facsimile of a scene depicting the afterlife (Tomb of Sennedjem) (detail), ca. 1922
    Charles K. Wilkinson (American, born Britain, 1897–1986)
    Tempera on paper

    H. 54 in. (137.2 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.2)


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