Riverside Scene
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
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) mount (m1: wall mount on board): 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3 in. (29.8 × 44.5 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 65.16. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
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Gallery
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Title
Riverside Scene
Date
ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.
Dynasty
late Dynasty 18
Period
New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Geography
Place found: Hermopolis, Egypt, Place made: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
Medium
Limestone, pigment
Classification
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)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
65.16
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These reliefs that you just photographed are really special because they come from the part of a city that people actually lived and worked in. Most of what you see in many ours and many museums come from tombs.People only lived in the city of Akhetaten, as it was called in ancient times, for a very short period. This actually makes it much easier for archaeologists to study.
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