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This facsimile painting copies a detail from a scene depicting foreigners bringing gifts in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100) at Thebes. This part of the scene shows Aegean islanders bringing ingots of metal (31.6.42, 31.6.45) and metal vessels (30.4.84).
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Title: Cretans Bringing Gifts, Tomb of Rekhmire
Artist:
Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Thutmose III–early Amenhotep II
Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100)
Medium: Tempera on paper
Dimensions: H. 47.3 × W. 48.4 cm (18 5/8 × 19 1/16 in.); scale 1:1; framed: H. 48.5 × W. 49.9 cm (19 1/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
Object Number: 30.4.84
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