Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye Enthroned Beneath a Kiosk, Tomb of Anen

Nina M. Davies's facsimile reproduces a scene of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye enthroned beneath a kiosk from the Tomb of Anen in the Theban necropolis. Davies spent decades meticulously copying Egyptian tomb paintings for the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition, preserving imagery that was rapidly deteriorating. The original dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1353 BCE), not the fourteenth century CE—the work in the collection is Davies's modern archaeological copy.

Tempera on paper, serving as a precise archaeological facsimile. Davies carefully replicated the flat, profile-based figural conventions, hieratic scale, and mineral pigment palette of the ancient Egyptian original with scholarly accuracy.