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Seated Figures in a Niche, Tomb of Tjay

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 30.4.197. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 30.4.197
Period: Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 17–Early Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1550–1479 B.C.
Date range: 1550 BCE – 1479 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), Seated Figures in a Niche, Tomb of Tjay (30.4.197). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/58885

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Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom, Dynasty 17–Early Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1479 B.C. Tempera on paper. facsimile: h. 41 cm (16 1/8 in); w. 33 cm (13 in), scale unknown, framed: h. 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in); w. 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1930.

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