TAA i.3.1.19

                                               2.

yachts have always preserved the tradition of previous generations.

          But a review of these religious models is further com-

plicated by the problem as to whether they represent boats which 

at that time had any real existence. For while they may 

reproduce the boats in which the funeral procession of 

Tutankhamen was borne across the river, or those in which he 

made a pilgrimage to Abydos, they may equally have been con-

structed in order to provide a substitute for a funeral or 

religious progress which tradition demanded<,> but which never 

actually took place. Or they may even have represented <the material for> a 

ceremony which was to be carried out in the other world.

          A fresco in the Tomb of the Two Sculptors shows one such 

funeral boat, carrying a shrine, placed on the deck of another 

larger but very similar boat. Another in the Tomb of Apy 

depicts one of these boats again bearing its shrine, in course 

of building but fixed firmly on a sledge. A similar ceremonial 

boat, too small for practical use, is found in the well-known 

processional boat of Amo/<e>n, depicted shown both at Deir el 

Bahari and at Karm/<n>ak. In view therefore of the existence 

of these miniature boats, it seems at least doubtful whether 

the models of boats of the funeral or religious type present 

any real practical boats then in existence.

          To turn now to the models which appear to represent the 

ordinary boats of the time, it is really immaterial whether 

they depict the boats which actually took part in a funeral 

or religious procession or which should, by tradition, have 

done so. For a comparison with the frescos of other, but 

closely contemporary tombs, shows that such boats were then in 

common use.

          These models of boats of the time fall into two classes:-
                     1. Boats with one steering paddle.
                     2. Boats with two steering paddles and projecting stern/<m> 

                         and stern posts.

          The boats with one steering paddle are represented by