Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/E.23.3

Accession_Number

E.23.3

Shape

Model boat

Shape_description

Material

Wood

Fabric

Egyptian

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

Decoration

Model of Nile boat, with six rowers with six oars and a steersman standing and steering with paddle. Another figure standing in front of steersman, by mast, and a final figure sitting behind the rowers. Figures are painted with brown pigment for skin, black pigment for hair. There is a faint red pigment on the 'deck', going from top to bottom and then several horizontal lines. It is unlikely that all of the figures are originally from this boat. The number 886 (988) is visable on the boat, which likely the tomb number.

Inscriptions

Condition

Intact, although figures likely from other boat models. The paint on all figures has degraded and does not merit individual description. Detail is missing from the bow and stern of the boat where the wood has degraded so much. There is also fissures in the wood of the deck of the boat.

Technique/Style

Provenance

From Tomb of Officials at Beni Hassan

Period

Middle Kingdom: 12 dynasty

Date

1991-1786

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

	Wooden boat , general view
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2001.99.0003.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat: four oarsmen.
2001.99.0004.jpg	Wooden boat, general view
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2019.99.0132.jpg	Side view of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
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2019.99.0134.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0135.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0136.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0137.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0138.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat
2019.99.0139.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0140.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0141.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0142.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0143.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0144.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0145.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0146.jpg	Oblique view of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0147.jpg	Oblique view of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0148.jpg	Oblique view of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0149.jpg	Oblique view of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0150.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0151.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0152.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
2019.99.0153.jpg	Detail of a wooden Egyptian funerary boat.
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