Model – boat, fragment MOD-0034
By Vanhulle, Dorian
, Nekhen town, Near S.E. angle of Town 180.
1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Z 15709.
Date : Naqada III
The object comes from an area of the town of Nekhen, Hierakonpolis, that is attributed to the Naqada III period on the basis of archaeological data.
Material : Clay
Preservation : Fragment
Preservation information :
This model of modest dimensions is broken and only one extremity is preserved.
Description
Fragment of the extremity (prow?) of a small boat model. This extremity is slightly raised and its tip is pointed. This roughly triangular shape marks the junction of the port side and the starboard. The intern section of the model is slightly hollow.
Dimensions (cm)
2
4
4.4
Additional information
Acknowledgements
We thank I. Gunn (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge) 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
, 727, 729, fig. 7a.
