Coffin Panel Showing a Man in a Papyrus Boat
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: 305-30 B.C.
Medium: Painted wood
Dimensions:
width: 22 7/16 in. (57 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 91.80.117
Provenance: Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1991
Label Text
The Nile, as the major water source for ancient Egypt, was central to daily life and was itself a symbol of life and prosperity. In both the solar concept of the afterlife and the Osirian netherworld, an otherworldly Nile played a central role. This painting, once part of a coffin, shows the deceased boating on the Nile of the otherworld.
(G. D. Scott, III)
(G. D. Scott, III)
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