338a: Boats on the Tigris

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/37/1
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 19.3 x 30.5 cm
Scope and Content The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Kufa boats at Bagdad are circular, are made of skins, and are broken up at their journey's end; exactly as noted by Herodotus (I, 194) in the fifth century B.C."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Travels and Studies of Sites and Monuments"
Related records [1936/2/2/37], 338: Mesopotamian boats; K. Frost
[BSA SPHS/1/6496.C6239], Kufas at Bagdad on the Tigris River, Latest 1906