{{selectedLanguage.Name}}
Sign In Sign out
Action History
×
Home/ Collections / Early Dynastic Period (3150 – 2686 BC) / Ancient Egypt/ Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Ancient Egypt

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Ancient Egypt
  • Date: c.1479 - c.1458 BC
  • Style: New Kingdom
  • Theme: Ostraca
  • Genre: sketch and study, portrait
  • Media: limestone, ink
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
  • Dimensions: 22.5 x 18 cm
  • Buy Handmade Oil Painting Reproductions
    Order Oil Painting
    reproduction
Article Provenance ...
Article
Provenance

This gridded sketch of a man wearing a short wig undoubtedly depicts Senenmut, one of Hatshepsut's most valued officials. His appointment to a large number of important offices, such as steward of the god Amun at Karnak, enabled him to afford the excavation of an elaborate funerary complex consisting of an offering chapel and a tomb not far from Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri in western Thebes. He also created a tomb for his mother, Hatnefer, and other family members on the hillside below.

This limestone chip, called an ostracon, was found in debris on the hillside just below Senenmut's offering chapel on Sheikh abd el-Qurna hill.

The Met

More ...

Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935–1936. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1936.

More ...
Ancient Egypt Famous works
Related Artworks
1-{{getCurrentCount()}} out of {{getTotalCount()}} LOAD MORE

Court Métrage

Short Films