Modern painting of tomb of Khuenre, MQ 1, east wall
Painting (oil on canvas) of scene from tomb of Khuenre, MQ 1, east wall
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- ID
- MMA_23.63
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Reproductions & paintings
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- Findspot
- MQ 1
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- Material
- Oil on canvas
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- Dimensions
- framed: h. 94 cm (37 in); w. 117 cm (46 1/16 in)
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- Credit Line
- MMA, Gift of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, 1923
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- Period
- Modern
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- Individual - Ancient
- Khuenre (MQ 1)
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- Artist
- Joseph Lindon Smith, American, 1863–1950
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- Object owned by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Notes
- Collection of Lily S. Place, Cairo. Donated by Lily Place to the museum, 1923.
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- Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery
Ancient People
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- Type Individual - Ancient
- Remarks Owner of MQ 1. Son of Menkaure and Khamerernebty [II]. Appears in chapel relief, west wall (unnamed), east and south walls (depicted as young naked boy standing in front of his seated mother Khamerernebti on south wall), identified as [sA nswt smsw n Xt=f xrj-sStA n jt=f smr watj n jt=f] king's eldest son of his body, secretary of his father, sole companion of his father; in situ in Menkaure quarry cemetery MQ 1 = MQ 137. Limestone seated scribe statue (13-1-560 = MFA 13.3140) inscribed for Khuenre; found in Menkaure quarry cemetery MQ 1 = MQ 137.
Modern People
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- Type Artist
- Nationality & Dates American, 1863–1950
- Remarks Artist /expedition painter and copyist; Daughters Rachael and Frances also painted. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Object owned by