TT 100 — Tomb of Rekhmire

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Dynasty 18 · Reign of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Western Thebes

Owner: Rekhmire, Governor of the Town and Vizier

Facsimile painting of a seated man and woman facing right toward a tall heap of offerings: bread, fish, fruit, vegetables and jars on a stand. Hieroglyphic columns fill the top, and plaster loss leaves a blank area at the right.

Rekhmire and Mother Receiving Offerings, Tomb of Rekhmire

Charles K. Wilkinson, facsimile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.79). Open Access, CC0. CC0 1.0 · Source

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Facsimile painting in two registers of red-brown men in white kilts working on pale colossal statues. Above, men climb and lean over a seated statue while one kneels to polish its face; below, workers crouch and bend over another statue.

Sculptors at Work, Tomb of Rekhmire

Nina de Garis Davies, facsimile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1931 (31.6.10). Open Access, CC0. CC0 1.0 · Source

Facsimile painting of two men in richly patterned kilts carrying vessels. One holds a gold jug and a curved tusk on his shoulder, the other lifts a tall gold vase and carries a dark leather bag, against a mottled grey-green wall.

Aegean Islanders in the Tomb of Rekhmire

Nina de Garis Davies, facsimile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1933 (33.8.1). Open Access, CC0. CC0 1.0 · Source

Facsimile painting of workers making mud bricks on a pale ground. Men carry and hoe wet clay, one bends over a brown mould beside a stack of bricks, and a kneeling man pulls on a tool, with blue hieroglyphs in the middle.

Brickmakers, Tomb of Rekhmire

Nina de Garis Davies, facsimile. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.77). Open Access, CC0. CC0 1.0 · Source

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Sources

  1. [1] Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Vol. I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 1: Private Tombs. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. — TT 100
  2. [2] Davies, Norman de Garis. The Tomb of Rekh-mi-Rēʿ at Thebes. 2 vols. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943.
  3. [3] Theban Mapping Project. Database of the tombs of the Theban Necropolis. — TT 100
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