Haremhab: The General Who Became King
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Haremhab: The General Who Became King


The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be ending their Haremhab: The General Who Became King exhibition on July 4, 2011.

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fragment of wall painting from the Tomb of Sebekhotpe
New Kingdom
Dynasty 18 reign of Thutmose IV
ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Ilwet el-Sheikh Abdel-Qurna, Tomb of Sebekhotep (TT 63)
Tempera paint on mud plaster
. 53.5 cm (21 1/16 in); w. 73.5 cm (28 15/16 in)
Rogers Fund, 1930
30.2.1




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