Provisions from Nubia Stored in the Temple, Tomb of Rekhmire

The Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna was the tomb of Vizier Rekhmire under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, and it contains the most comprehensive documentary program of any New Kingdom private tomb — scenes of foreign tribute, workshops, and administrative activity unparalleled in their scope. This scene of Nubian provisions stored in the temple records the tribute system that moved goods from the conquered south into Egypt's temple economy, representing both the political geography of the New Kingdom empire and the administrative competence of the vizier whose tomb it was. Davies's copy was part of a systematic effort to document the entire program of this exceptional monument.

The register organization of the tribute storage scene requires Davies to replicate the Egyptian convention of stacking objects and figures in horizontal bands, each register legible independently while the whole communicates the scale of the temple's provisions. Her precision in rendering the specific commodity types — their shapes, colors, and quantities — preserves the scene's administrative information.