Egyptian tomb scene, illustration. This scene shows a carpenter making a chair on the walls of the painted tomb chapel of Vizier Rekhmire, the highest

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Egyptian tomb scene, illustration. This scene shows a carpenter making a chair on the walls of the painted tomb chapel of Vizier Rekhmire, the highest official in the government of the pharaohs Thutmose III and Amenhotep II. It dates from the New Kingdom (Dynasty 18), in around 1479-1400 BC. This tomb is in Thebes, Upper Egypt. The carpenter is drilling holes in the frame of a low chair with feline legs. He is using a bow-drill and his adze and level lie on the ground behind the chair. This illustration (tempera on paper) was produced in 1929 by Egyptologist Nina de Garis Davies (1881-1965) on an expedition for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Photo credit: © METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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