Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna

Davies rendered the scene using a flat, linear approach that mirrors the original wall painting’s lack of perspective. Warm hues of yellow, green and blue dominate, bounded by a dark margin that frames the composition. The birds are depicted with bold outlines and contrasting plumage, emphasizing their decorative role within the decorative scheme.

Created in the early to mid‑twentieth century, the facsimile formed part of Nina M. Davies’s systematic documentation of Amarna’s palace murals, a project she pursued alongside her husband, Norman de Garis Davies. Their copies were intended for scholarly publication and for preserving the visual record of fragile wall paintings.

The Green Room belongs to the North Palace, one of the royal complexes at Amarna, the short‑lived capital founded by Pharaoh Akhenaten. Its decorative program reflects the period’s shift toward a more naturalistic representation of flora and fauna, diverging from earlier, more stylised Egyptian conventions.

Davies’s reproductions continue to serve as reference material for Egyptologists studying Amarna’s art, especially where the original surfaces have deteriorated. The facsimile also illustrates the early twentieth‑century practice of meticulous hand‑copying as a primary method of archaeological documentation.