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Norman de Garis Davies | Userhat Adoring Deities of the West, Tomb of Userhat | Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom, Ramesside | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Created: 2022-08-05 14:21 Updated: 2022-08-05 14:21 Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548436 Notebook: Notebook Stack/PB1099


Userhat Adoring Deities of the West, Tomb of Userhat original ca. 1294–1279 B.C.

Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom, Ramesside

Norman de Garis Davies

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: Userhat Adoring Deities of the West, Tomb of Userhat

Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)

Period: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom, Ramesside

Dynasty: Dynasty 19

Reign: reign of Seti I

Date: original ca. 1294–1279 B.C.

Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Userhat (TT 51), MMA Graphic Section

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: Facsimile h. 68 cm (26 3/4 in.); w. 94.5 cm (37 3/16 in.)
scale 1:1
Framed h. 69.2 cm (27 1/4 in.); w. 90.5 cm (35 5/8 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930

Accession Number: 30.4.31

Provenance

Painted at Qurna by Norman de Garis Davies for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930.

References

Wilkinson, Charles K. 1979. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum's Collection of Facsimiles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, new ser., vol. 36, no. 4 (Spring), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 37, fig. 40.

Wilkinson, Charles K. and Marsha Hill 1983. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Arnold, Dorothea 2010. "Wüste." In Falken, Katzen, Krokodile: Tiere im Alten Ägypten: Aus den Sammlungen des Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, und des Ägyptischen Museums Kairo, edited by Dorothea Arnold. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, pp. 14–15.

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