Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk

Nina M. Davies created this tempera facsimile of an ancient Egyptian wall painting depicting Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his mother Mutemwia seated in a ceremonial kiosk, reproducing a scene from a Theban tomb dating to the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1390 BCE). Davies worked for decades with the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition, systematically recording tomb paintings threatened by deterioration. Her facsimiles preserve crucial evidence of New Kingdom royal iconography and ritual ceremony.

Executed in tempera on paper, this facsimile reproduces the characteristic flat, profile-view Egyptian figural style with its distinctive canon of proportions and hieratic scale. Davies carefully replicated the original's palette of mineral pigments and the precise outlines that defined Egyptian royal portraiture.