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Ceiling Decoration, Tomb of Tjay New Kingdom

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 30.4.127a. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 30.4.127a
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18, early
Reign: reign of Ahmose–Joint reign
Date: ca. 1550–1458 B.C.
Date range: 1550 BCE – 1458 BCE
Materials: ['tempera on paper']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Ceiling Decoration, Tomb of Tjay (30.4.127a). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/23654

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New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, reign of Ahmose–Joint reign, ca. 1550–1458 B.C. Tempera on Paper. facsimile: h. 32 cm (12 5/8 in); l. 163 cm (64 3/16 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 13 3/4 in; w. 65 in. From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1930.

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