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Bucrania Ceiling Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2007

Bucrania Ceiling Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2007
Bucrania ceiling painting from the palace of Amenthotep III

Dynasty 18, ca. 1390-1353 BC
From Thebes, Malkata, MMA Excavations
Painted mud plaster

Accession # 11.215.451

The important buildings in the palace complex of Amenhotep III at Malkata 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.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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