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Boat-Building Scene Late PeriodThebes, Egypt

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Description

Object Label: Some boat-building scenes are known from the New and Middle Kingdoms. Nevertheless, this relief finds its best parallels In Old Kingdom works, that is, in works done before circa 2200 B.C. Unlike those earlier compositions, however, this scene is strongly based on curving lines, such as the unusually exaggerated pose of the man swinging an adze. The workmen's faces are related both to Old Kingdom figures and to faces such as those on the Hatshepsut temple relief in this vitrine. Caption: Boat-Building Scene, ca. 664–634 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 7 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (19.4 x 27 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 51.14. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Connections

Found at Thebes
Royals Hatshepsut
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 51.14 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3553 tier-2
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