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Material : Painted plaster
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1911)
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Ancient Egypt
Painting
Area related
Malkata (Egypte)
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| Description |  |
The important buildings in the palace complex of Amenhotep III at Malakata were embellished with floor, wall and ceiling paintings. This partially restored section of a ceiling painting was discovered lying face up in a room adjacent to the king's bedchamber. The motif consists of a repeating pattern of rosette-filled running spirals alterning with bucrania (ox skulls). Similar ceiling patterns, both painted and modeled in plaster, have been excavated at Aegean sites of a slightly earlier period.
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