Dragging a Statue of Thutmose I

A tempera facsimile of a tomb scene in which red-skinned men in loincloths haul a sledge bearing a statue, pulling ropes and pressing forward. A figure in a blue crown and pleated white kilt stands at right, and a fan-bearing attendant and a row of white-robed women fill the upper left; two cartouches hang above.

Look closer: Small hieroglyphic cartouches sit in the upper center panel, legible as royal names.

Artist

Norman de Garis Davies

Date

1911; original ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Medium

Tempera on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3999 × 3516 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1915