tomb-painting
- Museum number
- EA37981
- Description
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Fragment (one of three) of a polychrome tomb-painting divided into two registers: upper - six women seated at a banquet; lower - five musicians seated on the ground with remains of nine vertical registers of hieroglyphic text above.
- Production date
- 1350BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Width: 50 centimetres (painting only)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published: PM I Part 2, p. 817;
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).
- Location
- On display (G61/dc2/sC)
- Condition
- good (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1833
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Waddington and Hanbury in Egypt in 1821.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA37981
- Registration number
- .37981
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: ES.175
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Other BM number: EA175 (original Big Number)