Seated woman with Two Female Servants

Seated woman with Two Female Servants

Charles K. Wilkinson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This facsimile painting copies a detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Djeserkaraseneb (TT 38) at Thebes. Here, a woman, seated on a low chair, is shown preparing for the festivities with the aid of two servants. A similar chair (36.3.152) was discovered in front of the tomb of a woman named Hatnefer.

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.