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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief with a boat sailing on the Nile or a canal, the rippling water indicated by parallel zigzag lines, a sailor crouching at the stern controlling the steering oar, with a royal man on deck, wearing a short kilt, seated on a tripod stool beneath a triangular deck-house, a young princess standing before him, holding a bouquet of flowers and a line rising up, perhaps controlling the sail billowing before her, their faces all deliberately damaged, the boat with rectangular bosses along its length, preserving extensive traces of red and blue pigment
20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) long
Provenance
with Khawam Brothers, Cairo, acquired in the 1940s and brought to Paris in the 1970s.
Acquired by the Cattaui family, Switzerland, from the above, 1989.
Literature
G. Roeder, Amarna Reliefs aus Hermopolis, Hildesheim, 1969, no. PC 103.
S. Vinson, “The Earliest Representations of Brailed Sails,” in Journal of the American Research Center In Egypt, vol. XXX, 1993, pp. 133-150.
S. Vinson, Egyptian Boats and Ships, Oxford, 1994, p. 42, no. 29.
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