Banquet Scene
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Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 4, 1999–May 7, 2000.
The women wear large cones of scented fat on their heads. As the evening progressed, the cones melted, giving the ladies a perfumed allure.
Tomb 181 (Tomb of the Two Sculptors), south wall, west side, Thebes [1];
With Paul and Marguerite Mallon, New York, by 1964;
Purchased from Paul and Marguerite Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
NOTES:
[1] Norman de Garis Davies, “The Tomb of the Two Sculptors at Thebes,” Egyptian Expedition Publications, Robb de Peyster Memorial Series, 4 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925) 56, pls. 3, 5, 6.
Norman de Garis Davies, The Tomb of the Two Sculptors at Thebes, Egyptian Expedition Publications, Robb de Peyster Memorial Series 4 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925), 56, plates 3, 5, 6.
Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 2 (December 1967): 30-31, (repro.).
John Cooney, “Art of the Ancient World.” Apollo 96 (December 1972): 477, fig. 5.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 28.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 112.
Anne Capel and Glen Markoe, Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt, exh. cat. (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1996), 193n3.
Dan Svarth, Egyptisk Møbelkunst Fra Faraotiden (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1998), 75.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 8, fig. 13.
