Provisions Stored in the Temple, Tomb of Rekhmire

A second scene of provisions stored in the Rekhmire tomb documents the variety and abundance of tribute goods available to the New Kingdom temple economy — grain, livestock, manufactured goods, and luxury items from across the empire. Nina Davies's systematic documentation of the Rekhmire tomb contributed substantially to Egyptologists' understanding of New Kingdom administrative organization and material culture. Each scene she copied preserved visual information that could not be recovered from textual sources alone — the specific appearance of containers, the rendering of ethnic types, the color coding of material categories.

Davies's rendering of the storeroom scenes maintains the strict horizontal register organization of the originals while precisely capturing the individual forms of commodities and vessels. Her attention to the color differentiation between types of goods — the specific pigments used to distinguish materials — preserves information essential for the scholarly use of these facsimiles.