Riverside Scene New Kingdom, Amarna PeriodHermopolis, Egypt
Description
Object Label: Part of this boat moored along the Nile appears in the lower left corner of this relief. Next to the boat a farmer, carrying two large water jars suspended from a pole, climbs the steep riverbank. His goal is the irrigated field, arranged in square plots, at the far right. In the scene at the very top, a shipbuilder smoothes a wooden plank. Caption: Riverside Scene, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 1/4 × 15 × 1 11/16 in. (23.5 × 38.1 × 4.3 cm) mount (m1: wall mount on board): 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3 in. (29.8 × 44.5 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 65.16. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 65.16 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3738 tier-2
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