Musicians and Dancers
Date ca. 1350 BCE
Movement Egyptian | New Kingdom | 18th Dynasty
Medium Painted plaster
Dimensions height 24”
Provenance Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt
Housed at The British Museum, London
Hierarchical conventions continued on in the New Kingdom as well–here, in a depiction of the annual Festival of the Wadi, elite officials in the top register dine with rigid poses and composite profiles; below, the musicians and dancers move freely about; individual locks of hair splay to accentuate their movement
