Beni Hasan Procession of Western Asiatics

The decorated tomb was documented in the nineteenth century and remains a central source for Middle Kingdom administration and foreign contact. Modern conservation and photography permit detailed study of the procession. The discovery belongs at Tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan, Egypt, and its value depends on documented context rather than resemblance alone. Field records, architectural relationships, associated objects, and later specialist study each contribute a different part of the reconstruction. The account therefore distinguishes what excavators physically recovered from the historical explanation built around those remains. The tomb scene shows men, women, children, animals, weapons, clothing, and goods unlike the Egyptian officials receiving them. Hieroglyphic captions identify the group and date their arrival to year six of Senusret II. Where early reports and later reassessments differ, the dossier follows the narrower claim supported by the surviving evidence and the cited institutional or academic publications.

The visitors wear patterned garments and carry weapons and goods while leading donkeys and accompanying children. Egyptian scribes and officials record and receive them. The record treats construction, material, wording, spatial arrangement, and associated finds as separate observations so that readers can see how the identification was reached. The tomb scene shows men, women, children, animals, weapons, clothing, and goods unlike the Egyptian officials receiving them. Hieroglyphic captions identify the group and date their arrival to year six of Senusret II. These features are important in combination: no single visual detail carries the entire argument. Missing portions, later alterations, uncertain provenience, or incomplete publication are not silently reconstructed, and modern labels are used as catalog conveniences rather than as words necessarily used by the ancient makers or occupants.

A painted caption places the event in regnal year six of Senusret II, giving the scene an unusually specific Middle Kingdom horizon. The displayed date is therefore a historical range rather than an assertion of precision beyond the evidence. Reign of Senusret II, approximately 1897–1878 BC describes the phase most relevant to this dossier, while the site or object may preserve earlier origins, later reuse, copying, restoration, or destruction. Dating arguments draw on the kinds of controls reported by the cited projects—stratigraphy, associated pottery or coins, script, architecture, scientific analysis, and securely dated historical horizons—without treating every method as equally exact. The record keeps the relevant phase distinct from material belonging to other centuries.