Men Splitting Papyrus

Men Splitting Papyrus

Hugh R. Hopgood

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This facsimile painting copies a detail from a scene of men harvesting and working papyrus in the tomb of Puyemre (TT 39) at Thebes. Facsimile 30.4.11 illustrates another part of this scene.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.