Anubis Weighing the Heart, Tomb of Nakhtamun

This tempera facsimile by Nina M. Davies reproduces a scene of Anubis weighing the heart of the deceased from the Tomb of Nakhtamun at Thebes, originally painted during the Ramesside period (c. 1279-1213 BCE). Nina Davies, working alongside her husband Norman, was one of the Metropolitan Museum's most skilled copyists of Egyptian tomb paintings, producing accurate color reproductions that preserved imagery threatened by deterioration. The date associated with this work references the original Egyptian painting, not the 20th-century facsimile.

Executed in tempera on paper as a precise archaeological facsimile, the copy reproduces the flat, profile-based figural style and register composition of ancient Egyptian funerary painting. Davies carefully matched the original pigments, capturing the characteristic Egyptian palette of red, yellow, blue, and black.