A Categorisation and Examination of Egyptian Ships and Boats from the Rise of the Old to the End of the Middle Kingdoms (BAR International Series)

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This fresh categorisation and examination grew from the writer’s innate curiosity about the shapes and kinds of the ships and boats of the Ancient World and particularly of the Ancient Egyptians. Many years sailing and the book by Nancy Jenkins, “The Boat beneath the Pyramid” which thought to be the vessel buried alongside the Great Pyramid of Giza sparked this curiosity, and from this start point, the focal point of the research moved to the catalogue of model vessels within the Cairo Museum collection, published by Reisner, and the surviving hulls from Dahshur. These sources were augmented and supported by the work by Boreux. Finds such as the timbers from Lisht added valuable information. An interest within the greater number of vessels to be known from the Old and Middle Kingdoms concentrated the researcher’s attention upon the craft of these periods. Three fragmentary examples of hull forms, supposedly not known until the Old Kingdom, have been included, as the categorization system proposed on this research attempts to chase away the prior to now accepted dates of a few Egyptian hull shapes.

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