Talk:Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile

Dates Don’t Match
This article appears to say the painting was created 1876-1877 and 1886-1887. Jayscore (talk) 12:49, 9 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I updated all mentions to 1876-1877 based on this reference.

Tsarivan613 (talk) 17:52, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Location of the funeral
I know that the Sotheby's page says the funeral is supposed to be in Thebes (Luxor), but I think the article should avoid specifying a location. The version of the painting that is in the infobox could be modeled on the Luxor area, but I don't think the outcrop in the near background fits in there, and at a first glance it made me think of Bigeh, next to Philae. The variant of the painting—which is actually the version that the Sotheby's page is discussing—is obviously Philae, down to the presence of Trajan's Kiosk. Without another source explicitly saying that it's Philae, we can't say that it is, but the Sotheby's page is demonstrably wrong.

I don't think Wikipedia policy has ever specified what to do when a source is wrong except "get a better source", but I've always thought that it's better to leave information out than to disseminate misinformation. A. Parrot (talk) 14:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)