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THBEgyptian New Kingdom Wooden Boat & Boatmen
Lot 10
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Feb 21, 2019
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2019-02-21 10:00:00
2019-02-21 10:00:00
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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1069 BCE. A hand-carved and hand-painted wooden boat with three oarsmen! The men at the front and rear ends of the vessel are standing with their arms extending to row the boat; the man at the front was most likely also a lookout watching for hazards such as sandbars; the gentleman in the center, seated beneath a canopy, was responsible for navigating with steering oars attached to stanchions. All three men present a classic Egyptian visage with large, dark-outlined eyes, a cropped haircut, and a white loincloth. Once carved, the figures and boat were covered in a thin layer of gesso and painted in red, black, cream, and white hues. These boatmen were created to be servants in the afterlife, ready to row the deceased upon the eternal Nile, as real boatmen would have done in life. Size: 19.375" L x 9.625" H (49.2 cm x 24.4 cm)
The funerary boat - customarily decorated with red, white, and black as we see here - is a traditional Egyptian tomb offering created to symbolize the transport of a deceased individual from life to the afterlife. Scholars believe that the Egyptians envisioned death as a journey via boat across the River Nile - the sacred river which ran down the center of the country and was respected as a resource for agriculture, trade, transport, and a symbol of fertility. During the Sixth Dynasty, it became common to place wooden models of lifelike scenes in Egyptian tombs; by the Middle Kingdom, they were placed in the tomb chamber, around the coffin, although some very rich tombs had a separate chamber just for wooden models. Two ships are found in almost all tombs that have models from this time period, and those ships are, during the Middle Kingdom, staffed by boatmen. According to the curatorial team at the MFA Boston, such funerary vessels "made of papyrus bundles lashed together, transported the deceased either to a cemetery across the Nile or to the sanctuary of the god of the afterlife, Osiris, at Abydos. Models of such vessels were painted white with reddish lines representing the bindings." (https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-funerary-boat-143954) As the practice of creating wooden boat models with boatmen continued into the New Kingdom, the numbers continued to increase. In fact, scholars believe that more than 700 figures populated the tomb of Sety I (1294–1279 BCE.
Provenance: ex-private San Francisco, California, USA collection; ex-John Cherones collection, acquired in New York, USA during the 1970s
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#144314Boatmen have been reattached. Oars are missing as shown. Expected surface wear to boat and boatmen with losses to pigment and gesso, though much remains. Inactive insect holes and nicks/abrasions here and there as shown.Condition
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