Model – boat MOD-0004
By Vanhulle, Dorian
, Settlement (fill of a room of a 2nd dynasty house).
2010 : Belgian Archaeological Mission in Elkab (MRAH).Egypt, ELK10-F41.
Date : Naqada IIID
Second dynasty
Material : Nile silt
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One end is broken off and there is some minor damage to the rest of the object.
Description
Oval-shaped boat model, moulded by hand and probably fired in an open fire. The edge of the broken end is curving slightly upward.
Decoration
Covered with a whitish wash (chalk) both on the inside and the outside.
Dimensions (cm)
3.8
8.3
2.2
Additional information
Comments
The clay is a Nile B1.
Acknowledgements
We thank Wouter Claes for facilitating the study of this artefact.
References
2024
Boat models from the early dynastic settlement of Elkab: new insights on the archaeology of early pharaonic domestic contexts, in: in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 720–723, fig. 1 (left, bottom), fig. 2.
