| Accession_Number | E.23.3 | ||||||||||
| Shape | Model boat | ||||||||||
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| Material | Wood | ||||||||||
| Fabric | Egyptian | ||||||||||
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| 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. | ||||||||||
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| Condition | Intact and complete, including all figues and oars. 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. | ||||||||||
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| Provenance | From Tomb of Officials at Beni Hassan | ||||||||||
| Period | Middle Kingdom: 12 dynasty | ||||||||||
| Date | 1991-1786 | ||||||||||
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| Height | 38.0 approx | ||||||||||
| Diameters | Length: 70.0 approx | ||||||||||
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| Other_dims. | Width at widest: 16.5 | ||||||||||
| Location | Egypt | ||||||||||
| Edited_by | Leigh; Kinsey | ||||||||||
| Date_edited | 21.08.2002; 09.01.2006 |
