Raised Tomb Relief Fragment in the Brooklyn Museum, March 2010

Tomb Relief Fragment

The themes of a woman pulling a thorn from another's foot and a woman, with a baby, stacking fruit are rather rare in Egyptian art. It is probable, therefore, that the unusual small details found in the fourteenth-century-B.C. Theban tomb painting (from the tomb of a man named Menena) illustrated here were the inspiration for this seventh¬century-B.C. relief. In copying these details, the artist has made them major scenes and rendered them far more elegantly.


Medium: Limestone

Place Found: Thebes, Egypt

Dates: ca. 670-650 B.C.E.

Dynasty: late XXV Dynasty-early XXVI Dynasty

Period: late Third Intermediate Period-early Late Period

Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (23.9 x 28.7 cm)

Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor

Accession Number: 48.74

Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3518/Tomb_R...