TAA i.3.1.32
Notebook
Page number
32
Caption
Note for scientific publication on boats
Date of creation
c. 1923-1939
Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
33.2 x 20.3 cm (h x w)
Notes
Typewritten and annotated report on boat models by G. S. Laird Clowes, specifically moon and solar barks.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
Transcription
processional boat of Amo/<e>n, as represented in a fresco at
Deir el Bahari.
The small female figure at the after end is either
punting with a pole – a practice not often shown in Egyptian
art – or else steering the vessel in the archaic fashion,
with no fixed steering paddle.