id:			94084
accession number:	1914.639
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.639
updated:		2023-02-06 13:00:02.388000

Decorated Jar with Boat Scenes, c. 3300–3100 BC. Egypt, Middle Predynastic Period, Naqada IIc-d periods. Marl clay pottery; diameter: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.); diameter of mouth: 15.2 cm (6 in.); overall: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.639

title:				Decorated Jar with Boat Scenes
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creation date:			c. 3300–3100 BC
creation date earliest:		-3300
creation date latest:		-3100
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Egypt, Middle Predynastic Period, Naqada IIc-d periods
technique:	marl clay pottery
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Predynastic
type:		Vessels
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measurements: Diameter: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.); Diameter of mouth: 15.2 cm (6 in.); Overall: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Untitled Exhibition
	opening date:   1973-08-13T04:00:00
	<i>Untitled Exhibition</i>. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-November 9, 1973).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1916, no. 97, p. 214, pl. 341; CMA 1982, no. 4 (entry by Arielle P. Kozloff)

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PROVENANCE

	Probably Upper Egypt. Purchased from Mohammed Mohasseb, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent, 14 May 1913
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The decoration painted on this jar shows two multi-oared boats traveling through fertile riverbanks lined with trees and aloe bushes. Rows of triangles indicate the desert hills in the background. The Nile was Egypt’s primary means of transportation and communication, since river traffic was far more efficient than travel by land. The concept of boat travel permeated all aspects of Egyptian life and religion. The sun god Ra was believed to travel by boat across the heavens by day and through the underworld by night. Funerary texts describe the trip to the afterlife as a journey by boat, and scenes of boats figured prominently in tomb decoration.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. <em>Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n5

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p 4, fig. 4
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	Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Prehistoric Egyptian Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 3 (1988).
	page number: 	p. 88
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160021

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 2
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n18

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 109-110; Mentioned: p. 109-111
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