Relief with a boat in a marsh
Place made:Egypt
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Old Kingdom or Middle Kingdom
Date: 2686-1650 B.C.
Medium: Painted limestone
Dimensions:
7 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (19 × 19.7 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.17
Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, New York, 12-13 December 1991, lot 33; sold by Charles Ede, Ltd., London, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1992; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005
Label Text
Label for 2005.1.17 and 2005.1.18:
The tombs of Egyptian officials and members of the royal family included chapels where priests performed funerary rituals and made offerings to the deceased. The walls of these chapels were often covered with depictions of the tomb owner, his family members, and their everyday activities. Images of the deceased fishing and hunting
birds from a small boat in the Nile's marshes were frequently among the activities represented. These two limestone relief fragments probably once formed part of such scenes; it is not certain whether they came from the same tomb. Both fragments depict a boat made of bundled papyrus stalks floating among reeds and, on the smaller fragment, a lotus flower. (J. Powers, 2009)
The tombs of Egyptian officials and members of the royal family included chapels where priests performed funerary rituals and made offerings to the deceased. The walls of these chapels were often covered with depictions of the tomb owner, his family members, and their everyday activities. Images of the deceased fishing and hunting
birds from a small boat in the Nile's marshes were frequently among the activities represented. These two limestone relief fragments probably once formed part of such scenes; it is not certain whether they came from the same tomb. Both fragments depict a boat made of bundled papyrus stalks floating among reeds and, on the smaller fragment, a lotus flower. (J. Powers, 2009)
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