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tomb-painting

• Object type

  • tomb-painting

• Museum number

  EA37986

• Description

  Rectangular fragment (one of three) of a polychrome tomb-painting representing a banquet scene, divided into two registers: upper - three seated couples are attended by serving women and boys; lower - a group of women, seated apart from the men, are attended by a standing serving woman.

• Culture/period

  • 18th Dynasty

• Date

  • 1350BC (circa)

• Findspot

  • Excavated/Findspot: Tomb of Nebamun
  • (Africa,Egypt,Upper Egypt,Tomb of Nebamun (Thebes))

• Materials

  • plaster

• Technique

  • painted

• Dimensions

  • Height: 76 centimetres (max)
  • Width: 126 centimetres (painting only)

• Curator's comments

  Published:
  PM I Part 2, p. 817. Le Pharaon-Soleil, Paris 1993, p. 238 [Fig.IX.25a,b].
  Lise Manniche in, Strudwick & Taylor: The Theban Necropolis, 2003, [pl.7];
  N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 172-3.
  Full publication: R. Parkinson, The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum (London: British Museum Press 2008).
  A. Middleton and K. Uprichard (ed.), The Nebamun Wall paintings: Conservation, Scientific Analysis and Display at the British Museum (London: Archetype 2008).

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• Bibliography

  • Strudwick 2006 p.172

• Location

  On display: G61/dc2/sC

• Condition

  good (incomplete)

• Associated names

  • Associated with: Nebamun

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Henry Salt

• Acquisition date

  1821

• Department

  Ancient Egypt & Sudan

• BM/Big number

  EA37986

• Registration number

  .37986

• Additional IDs

  • ES.181