New Year Gift: Shield
A.D. 1913; original ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
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)
Classification
Facsimile, Qenamun (TT 93), shield; Drink-and-be-Merry; New-Year-Gift1
Period
Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.4.174
Tags
About the Artist
Norman de Garis Davies · 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...