Model boat MOD-0029

Model – boat MOD-0029

By Vanhulle, Dorian

Hierakonpolis
, Nekhen town, Temple, 'Main Deposit'.
1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896–1908 E.87.

Date : Naqada III

This model comes from the 'Main Deposit' at Hierakonpolis, which notably contained Early Dynastic material such as the Narmer Palette, the Narmer Mace-head and the Scorpion Mace-head (Dynastifes "0" and 1). The archaic levels in the Temple of Hierakonpolis are extremely difficult to date with precision since the deposits have been used during an extensive period of time and mix materials from different periods.

Material : Ivory (undefined) (Carved)

Preservation : Fragmentary

Preservation information :
One extremity is broken off and the end of the other one is damaged. The model was found broken in three pieces and mended at an unknown date.

Description

Model of a sickle-shaped boat with a flat bottom and raised extremities. The preserved extremity stands upright with an oblique movement and its damaged tip seems to have been flat and rounded. There is no structure on the deck.

Decoration

The incisions, consisting of strokes and crosses, running along the gunwale are probably emulating the ligatures that were fixing the gunwale (most probably a bundle of reeds) to the wooden hull of the boat.

© Dorian Vanhulle, courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

3.3

Length :

18

Additional information

Acknowledgements

We thank Liam McNamara for facilitating the study of this artefact.

References

1970

Ships of the pharaohs: 4000 years of Egyptian shipbuilding. Architectura Navalis. London

1993

An Early Dynastic hide-covered model papyrus boat. Revue d'Égyptologie 44

2010

Die Provinztempel Ägyptens von der 0. bis zur 11. Dynastie: Archäologie und Geschichte einer Gesellschaftlichen Institution zwischen Residenz und Provinz. Teil 2: Abbildungen. Probleme der Ägyptologie 30. Leiden & Boston

2011

Egyptian watercraft models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods. BAR International Series 2263. Oxford

Cite this Page

Vanhulle, D. 2023. MOD-0029, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/MOD-0029. retrieved 11 February 2025.

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