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Lady Tjepu
Unknownca. 1390-1353 B.C.E.
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Fragmentary painting on whitewash over mudplaster of the upper part of a female figure identified through the remains of a text above the back of her head as Thepu, mother of Nebamun of Thebes. She has an ointment cone on her head; one arm is raised, the other hand holds a menat. The hair is black; she wears over an undergarment a white diaphanous shawl which leaves one breast bare. Outline irregular.
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Details
- Title: Lady Tjepu
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 1390-1353 B.C.E.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3743/Lady_Tjepu
- Medium: Limestone, gessoed and painted
- Place excavated: Thebes, Egypt
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
- Dimensions: 14 13/16 x 9 7/16 in. (37.6 x 24 cm)
- Collection: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Accession number: 65.197
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