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Descrizione : Wood painted in white, black and dark red Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 11th to 12th Dynasty Model boat with sun symbol on the roof of a canopy Four rowers and one funerary priest Removable round altar Lotus flower ornaments on bow and stern Dimensions: 26.8 x 58 x 18 cm(height x width x depth) Provenance: Private Collection Bruno Wertz Scientific research: Dr. Jan Moje, Free University of Berlin (see references below) The object was on loan in 1991/1992 for an exhibition at the Museum Grevenbroich A similar piece is located in the British Museum London This wooden boat originates from the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt, and it dates from the 11 υ th to the 12 υ th Dynasty (2119-1794/93 BCE).A rotund trunk in white colour raises up on a black basis plate. The boat is decorated around the outside with a dark red ladder pattern implying a railing. Lotus flower ornaments build the terminations of bow and stern. The original boat in real size was reed weaved. The rowers are placed in pairs in front and in the back. They are holding their arms stretched out straight in front of them, performing the rowing movement. Holes in their hands were used to plug in the oars. They are wearing the typical clothing for these boatmen, black short hair wigs and white aprons with naked upper bodies, while the lower body is not present. In the middle arises a baldachin, supported on four round columns, each decorated with two surrounding stripe patterns. The roof is painted with a sun symbol - a reference to the otherworldly determination of the boat to the journey to the West, where the sun god Re sets as a sun disk. The god is hovering as the sun in protection over the deceased under the baldachin. A man is now standing below the baldachin in the same clothing as the rowers with his arms stretched out. He is the responsible funerary priest who undertook the ritual accompaniment of the deceased. The stretched out hands are held in protective pose over the dead body. It is quite unusual that the funerary priest is dressed in rower's clothes, because normally he would have worn a longer priest gown. A little barrelled lose round alter, which originally probably did not belong to the boat, is located where once the lose coffin was placed. To accompany the deceased on their way to the afterlife it became customary starting in the Middle Kingdom to give them models into their coffin. The present piece is such an object with a crew of five men, who are joining the deceased at his journey. The coffin or the mummy of the deceased was mostly depicted on a boat under sun protection, a baldachin - the Egyptians were pragmatically assessed also in the beyond. The model boat is, according its age, in good and almost completely preserved condition. The colour is partially chipping off. Bow and stern display traces of splices. On the lower black base some parts have been restored and the glue is visible. The complete surface is covered with cuts. On the painting on top, one stripe is only half visible. In front at the lotus ornament, one piece of the coating has chipped off. The ladder pattern has come off on the right side of the boat. The figures and the baldachin are sticking unconsolidated in the appliances. A separately existing oar seems to belong to a different boat. The dimensions are 26.8 (height including the baldachin), 11.8 cm (height excluding the baldachin) x 58 cm (width) x 18 cm(depth). Parallels: R.E. Freed, The secrets of Tomb 10A, Boston 2009, Cat. 135, G.A. Reisner, Models of Ships and Boats, Cairo 1913, For the figures see also: E. D'Amicone (Hg.), Egitto Mai Visto. La montagna di morti: Assiut quattromila anni fa, Torino 2009, Cat. 8.27, S.R.K. Glanville, Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum II: Wooden Model Boats, London 1972, Cat a8. Auctionata would like to express its deep gratitude to Dr. Jan Moje for the scientific preparation of the collection and the research for the text. We do declare explicitly that the pricing of the objects of this auction does not derive from Dr. Jan Moje. Please do not hesitate to contact Auctionata for further background research information about the objects, especially the deciphermentof hieroglyphics.
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