Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
19-21 December 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/224
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iJ 4 139 151 (PLATE XVII). A very early Figure of a;Man walking, the eyes inlaid, the modelling - carefully rendered [| Plate X VII, 14], possibly of the VIth Dynasty; and a wooden Model of a Funerary Boat, with Mummy beneath a canopy and figures of boatmen, the prow shaped as the head of Anubis 2 A similar Model of a Funerary Boat, with a numerous crew of boat- men ; a short thick mast at the end | Plate X VIT | 1 Another, similar to last, but smaller and with fewer men; the prow shaped as a bird’s head [Plate X VIJ, 15] 1 Two similar Boats; one with the prow and stern shaped as lotus flowers 2 Another, similar, with figures of gods (?) in the centre | Plate _X V/7, 3] Seven roughly finished and coloured Figures of Women in wood ; NXITth Dynasty 7 Twelve Figures of Men, ete. in varied positions ; the flesh painted yellow or red ; XJ/th Dynasty 12 Seven other Figures of Men, in varied positions ; various Fragments of similar Figures, etc.; and three Mason’s Mallets [Plate Byes 19, 13 | 16 A pair of large Wooden Paddles or Oars, from the wooden boat dis- covered in the tomb of Amenhotep III ; XY V///th Dynasty 2 wooden pens and remains of paint) 5 Two Stibium Cases, made from sections of a thick-stemmed reed or of a heavy wood; various fragmentary pieces of Wooden Objects, ete. 6 woman swimming holding a bowl; a Wooden Stand, with inscrip- tion and figure of a woman attached 3 Supports of Chairs or Thrones, shaped as the foreparts of lons [Plate X VII, 23]; two tall standing Figures of Men, and various fragments ; all of wood ll Various Objects of wood; a Scribe’s Pen-case of leather; Figures of the sacred Hawk [Plate X VII, 10, 11]; Supports of Chairs, ete. 24 B 3 | | i, / /
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