Architectural element
decorated block
27.5 cm
25.3 cm
limestone
3.0 cm
A limestone block with decoration executed in raised relief. The scene represents three groups of oarsmen on a ship and a kiosk with a steerman belonging to another ship in the background. Only red colour is preserved on bodies of oarsmen. According to J. Lipińska[1] the blocks comes from the last ship of the middle register of ships hauling a barque with obelisks.
Footnotes
- ^ 980: Studies on the Reconstruction of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari – A Collection of the Temple Fragments in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin - - - Lipińska, Jadwiga.
Acquired to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1898.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Ausführliches Verzeichnis der ägyptischen Altertürmer und Gipsabgüsse, Berlin 1899, 114
- Breasted, James Henry, Geschichte Aegyptens, Zürich 1936, Pl(s). facing p. 160
- Favre, Sisto, L’Arte e lo sport nell’antico Egitto, Le Pleiadi 1961, 101
- Fechheimer, Hedwig, Die Plastik der Ägypter, Berlin 1914, Pl(s). 138
- Wenig, Steffen, Führer durch das Berliner Ägyptische Museum, Berlin 1961, 55
- Karkowski, Janusz, Ruderer, in: Lipińska, Jadwiga, Dolińska, Monika, Aksamit, Joanna, Geheimnisvolle Königin Hatschepsut. Ägyptische Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts v. Ch., Warschau 1997, 114 [14]
- Lipińska, Jadwiga, Studies on the Reconstruction of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari – A Collection of the Temple Fragments in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin, Festschrift zum 150jährigen Bestehen des Berliner Ägyptischen Museums, Berlin 1974, 169-170, Pl(s). 23a
- Ranke, Hermann, The Art of Ancient Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Applied Art, Vienna 1936, Pl(s). facing p. 225
- Werbrouck, Marcelle, Le temple d’Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, Bruxelles 1949, 41, n. 2
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part VI. The Lower Terrace, Additions and Plans, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 29, London 1908, Pl(s). CLIII
- Naville, Edouard, Transport of Obelisks, as illustrated by a Bas-Relief in the temple of Deir el Bahari, Archaeological Report: Comprising the Work of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Progress of Egyptology during the Year 1895-1896, 1896, 6, Pl(s). 1