Small boat with a slender crescentic hull and a vertical stem ending in a naturalistic duck head. The bow has an intricate multicolored decoration delimited on each side by a vertical white band, while the hull and duck figurehead and painted green. Stern of the boat is reconstructed.

The tomb belongs to Ipuy, a sculptor active during the reign of Ramesses II. TT 217 is located in the upper terrace in the western cemetery of Deir el-Medina. The tomb complex comprises a chapel within a walled courtyard and at least ten subterranean rooms. The chapel's decoration depicts daily life scenes and craftsmen at work.

The tomb owner Ipuy is shown in a bird-catching scene amidst a lush riverine thicket, standing inside a boat with a duck figurehead. His wife is shown kneeling in the boat in front of him, while an attending is depicted behind him.

Davies, N. de G. 1927. Two Ramesside Tombs at Thebes. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wachsmann, S. 1998. Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Wicke, D. 2010. "Die Goldschale der Iabâ – eine levantinische Antiquität." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 100.1: 109-141.