New Year Gift: Shield
The New Year festival celebrated the birth of the sun god and was associated with the rebirth of the king, as well as with renewal in general. Different traditions have been recorded as being part of this celebration. In New Kingdom tombs, scenes depict presentations of New Year gifts to the king, such as this shield.
Artwork Details
- Title: New Year Gift: Shield
- Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)
- Period: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
- Dynasty: Dynasty 18
- Reign: reign of Amenhotep II
- Date: A.D. 1913; original ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
- Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Qenamun (TT 93), MMA Graphic Section, 1913
- Medium: Tempera on paper
- Dimensions: framed: h. 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in); w. 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in); scale 1:1; framed with 30.4.175: h. 28.3 xm (11 1/8 in); w. 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
- Object Number: 30.4.174
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
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