East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel
1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
Framed: 171.5 cm (67 1/2 in.); w. 226.7 cm (89 1/4 in.); th. 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.) Scale: 1:1
Classification
Facsimile, TT 52, offering, agriculture, Nakht, Tawy
Period
Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1915
Accession Number
15.5.19b
Tags
About the Artist
Norman de Garis Davies|Lancelot Crane · 1865–1941
Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941) was a British Egyptologist and archaeological artist whose meticulous copies of ancient Egyptian tomb paintings constitute one of the most important records of pharaonic art ever made. Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, he originally trained for the ministry before being drawn into Egyptology through his involvement with the Egypt Exploration Fund in the 1890...