Model – boat MOD-0009
By Vanhulle, Dorian
, Settlement (yellow dark brown sand layer below silo T3D-fea06).
16.11.2016 : Belgian Archaeological Mission in Elkab (MRAH).Egypt, ELK16_F-03.
Date : Naqada IIID
Second dynasty
Material : Nile silt
Preservation : Fragment
Preservation information :
Less than one half of the model is preserved.
Description
This boat was modelled by hand, with the stroke of a finger. It has a triangular shape and the tip of the extremity is pointed. A hollowing in the clay 2.4 cm away from the tip possibly marks the intern section of the boat. The preserved part of the bottom is flat.
There is no trace of decoration. The object is unfired.
Dimensions (cm)
0.6
4.7 x 2.6 x 1.2
Additional information
Comments
The clay is a Nile B2.
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
, 719–721, 723–724, fig. 1 (left, top), fig. 2.
