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Unknown Copyist | The Mother and Wife of Userhat, Tomb of Userhat | New Kingdom, Ramesside | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Created: 2022-08-05 14:23 Updated: 2022-08-05 14:23 Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/557804 Notebook: Notebook Stack/PB1099


The Mother and Wife of Userhat, Tomb of Userhat ca. 1294–1279 B.C.

New Kingdom, Ramesside

Unknown Copyist

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 135

Artwork Details

Title: The Mother and Wife of Userhat, Tomb of Userhat

Artist: Unknown Copyist

Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside

Dynasty: Dynasty 19

Reign: reign of Seti I

Date: ca. 1294–1279 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: facsimile: H. 49 × W. 26.5 cm (19 5/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
scale 1:2
framed: 50.5 × 27 cm (19 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930

Accession Number: 30.4.162

Provenance

Painted at Qurna by an unknown artist for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,. Brought to New York and accessioned, 1930.

References

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.

Roehrig, Catharine H. 1996. "Women's work: Some occupations of non-royal women as depicted in ancient Egyptian art." In Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt, edited by Anne K. Capel and Glenn E. Markoe. New York: Hudson Hills Press, p. 22, fig 14.

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