Painted plaster tomb relief
- Accession Number
- W1377
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Offerings case
- Object Type
- Architecture, Architectural element, Wall, Surface plaster
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Dynasty
- Eighteenth Dynasty
- Material
- Plaster
- Provenance
- Egypt, Thebes/Luxor, Western necropolis
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Frame - Width: 359mm | Depth: 54mm | Height: 320mm
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Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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Painted plaster of man, the tomb owner, holding a lotus flower seated in front of a loaded table. The piece is in a wooden frame. The painting has a squared grid designed to help the artist in placing the parts of the body in the correct place. It dates to the early New Kingdom. It was originally part of the Rustafjaell collection purchased by Wellcome in 1906.
- Audio
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- 3D Model
- Other Identity
- 747 (Boscawen number) | 249 M (written on pencil on frame)
- Previous Owners
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936) | Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
