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"tombstone": "Two Boats with Female Mourners, c. 667\u2013647 BCE. Egypt, Late period (715\u2013332 BCE), Dynasties 25\u201326. Limestone; overall: 58.2 x 91 cm (22 15/16 x 35 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1951.282",
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"title": "Two Boats with Female Mourners",
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"id": 301477,
"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
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"description": "Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), west portico, north wall. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris (Mallon 254)",
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"description": "This relief depicts part of the flotilla accompanying the funerary boat. The setting could be either the brief voyage across the Nile to the cemetery on the west bank or the traditional voyage downstream to Abydos, the sacred city of Osiris, where in earlier times final rites for the dead were performed. Both of the boats preserved here are filled with professional female mourners whose task it was to proclaim the virtues of the deceased and to lament his departure. This composition is certainly copied from a lost, probably painted, original of Dynasty 18.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14-15",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 408",
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"citation": "M\u00fcller, Von Hans Wolfgang. \"Der >Stadtf\u00fcrst von Theben< Montemh\u00eat\" M\u00fcnchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 26 (1975): 7-36.",
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