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Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna

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These walls are copies: paintings in tempera on paper, most of them full size, made in the 1900s by artists working for The Met, of paintings in tombs at Thebes. Sources: The Met, “Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes”; The Met, “Sennedjem and Iineferti in the Fields of Iaru”

Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna. Nina de Garis Davies, facsimile, 1924, of a painting in the tomb of Menna (TT 69), Thebes, about 1396–1347 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930. Public domain.