Painting of Lady Tjepu (Q15788627)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: portrait (Q134307)

artist: no value

collection: Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)

location: Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)

country of origin: Ancient Egypt (Q11768)

material used: limestone (Q23757) plaster (Q274988) clay earth pigment (Q265894)

time period: Ancient Egypt (Q11768)

depicts: woman (Q467) dress (Q200539) bijou (Q3575260) Menat (Q1779386) head cone (Q2213984)

instance of: fresco (Q22669139) archaeological find (Q10855061) Portrait (Q21768299) painting (Q3305213)

Google Arts & Culture asset ID: aQHrh_gVi6lw_g

Brooklyn Museum artwork ID: 3743

catalog URL: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3743

information from the Brooklyn Museum catalog

description: Fragmentary painting on whitewash over mudplaster of the upper part of a female figure identified through the remains of a text above the back of her head as Thepu, mother of Nebamun of Thebes. She has an ointment cone on her head; one arm is raised, the other hand holds a menat. The hair is black; she wears over an undergarment a white diaphanous shawl which leaves one breast bare. Outline irregular.

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