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Two Boats with Female Mourners

Two Boats with Female Mourners

c. 667–647 BCE
Overall: 58.2 x 91 cm (22 15/16 x 35 13/16 in.)
Location: 107 Egyptian

Description

This relief depicts part of the flotilla accompanying the funerary boat. The setting could be either the brief voyage across the Nile to the cemetery on the west bank or the traditional voyage downstream to Abydos, the sacred city of Osiris, where in earlier times final rites for the dead were performed. Both of the boats preserved here are filled with professional female mourners whose task it was to proclaim the virtues of the deceased and to lament his departure. This composition is certainly copied from a lost, probably painted, original of Dynasty 18.
  • Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), west portico, north wall. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris (Mallon 254)
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14-15 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 5 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 5 archive.org
    Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 408
    Müller, Von Hans Wolfgang. "Der >Stadtfürst von Theben< Montemhêt" Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 26 (1975): 7-36. Reproduced: p. 31, abb. 26
  • In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
    CMA 1958, no. 218A.
  • {{cite web|title=Two Boats with Female Mourners|url=false|author=|year=c. 667–647 BCE|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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