Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Model Boat, 1st Intermediate Period/11th Dynasty, 2180-1938 B.C.
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Model Boat
1st Interme📖diate Period/11th Dynasty, 2180-1938 B.C.
probably representing a boat made of dried papyrus, the two o𓆏wners seated amidships, three standing attendant figures behind them, two oarsmen near the bow.
Length 40 cm.
thence by descent to the present owner
For model boats such as this example see S. D’Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H.Roehrig, Mummies and Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, pp.114-115.
John Gadsby is the author of My Wanderings, Being Travels in the East in 1846-47, 1850-51, 1852-53, in which he describes his extensive travels in Mal🦂ta, Smyrna, Egypt, the Holy Land and Jerusalem, Italy, Greece, and other lands. It was first published in London in 1855. A second volಞume covered his travels between 1855 and 1859.
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