Weavers, Tomb of Khnumhotep

Weavers, Tomb of Khnumhotep

Norman de Garis Davies

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This facsimile painting copies part of a scene in the tomb of Khnumhotep (tomb 3) at Beni Hasan. The scene depicts a group of weavers. The women at the right are plying linen thread and the two at the left are weaving cloth on a ground loom. The facsimile was painted at the tomb in 1931 by Norman de Garis Davies who was director of the Graphic Expedition of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Weavers, Tomb of KhnumhotepWeavers, Tomb of KhnumhotepWeavers, Tomb of KhnumhotepWeavers, Tomb of KhnumhotepWeavers, Tomb of Khnumhotep

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.