Riverside Scene
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Part of this boat moored along the Nile appears in the lower left corner of this relief. Next to the boat a farmer, carrying two large water jars suspended from a pole, climbs the steep riverbank. His goal is the irrigated field, arranged in square plots, at the far right. In the scene at the very top, a shipbuilder smoothes a wooden plank.
MEDIUM
Limestone, pigment
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
- Place found: Hermopolis, Egypt
- Place made: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
DATES
ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
late Dynasty 18
PERIOD
New Kingdom, Amarna Period
DIMENSIONS
9 1/4 × 15 × 1 11/16 in. (23.5 × 38.1 × 4.3 cm)
mount (m1: wall mount on board): 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3 in. (29.8 × 44.5 × 7.6 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
65.16
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
PROVENANCE
Archaeological provenance not yet documented, probably from Tell el-Amarna, Egypt; probably reused inside the pylon of Ramesses II at Hermopolis Magna, Egypt; by February 18, 1965, acquired by Mathias Komor, New York, NY; 1965, purchased from Mathias Komor by the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Fragmentary limestone relief with traces of red color and part of two representations in sunk relief. Above: a man facing left, his head missing is seated on a three-legged stool in an enclosure working with an adze on a long pole; on his right a storage jar on a stand, other objects nearby. In the scene below a boat is moored at left whereas in the center some plants indicate the river back here a man, moving up an undulating hill line to the right, carries two water jars on a pole over his shoulders. One of his legs - like part of the boat - is cut off. To the right a grid indicates a field or the layout of a garden.
Condition: Good. Lower right corner and upper center of edge are badly chipped. Left side is broken off diagonally, from the bottom up inward. Entire surface uneven and somewhat pitted in places; some spotty dark brown discoloration.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Riverside Scene, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 1/4 × 15 × 1 11/16 in. (23.5 × 38.1 × 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 65.16. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 65.16_PS22.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 65.16_PS22.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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