Boats with Mourners and Provisions, Tomb of Neferhotep

This tempera facsimile by Nina M. Davies reproduces an ancient Egyptian tomb painting showing boats with mourners and provisions from the Tomb of Neferhotep (TT49) in the Theban necropolis. Davies, alongside her husband Norman de Garis Davies, was one of the foremost recorders of Egyptian tomb paintings in the early 20th century, working for the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition. Though the copy dates to the modern era, it preserves details of New Kingdom funerary art that have since deteriorated, making such facsimiles invaluable archaeological documents.

Executed in tempera on paper, this archaeological facsimile faithfully reproduces the flat, register-based composition and characteristic profile-view figures of ancient Egyptian painting. Davies's meticulous technique captures the original's mineral pigment palette and precise linear outlines while documenting the state of preservation at the time of recording.