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Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
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This facsimile painting copies a fragment of a hunting scene in the tomb of Mentuherkhepeshef (TT 20) in the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery of WesternThebes. The original painting is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 43367a, b). This portion of the hunting scenes shows parts of two arrows and the head of an antelope.
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Title: Fragment of a Hunting Scene
Artist:
Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)
Period: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
Dynasty: original Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Thutmose III
Date: A.D. 1912; original ca. 1504–1458 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, MMA Graphic Section, 1912; Original from Dra Abu el-Naga, Tomb of Mentuherkhepeshef (TT 20), PM plan (7)
Medium: Tempera on paper
Dimensions: H. 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); w. 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.), scale 1:1
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number: 30.4.7
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