CIRILI. CITY, RIVER & LITTORALL’extension des infrastructures de transport en zones deltaïques

L'influence de l'espace de navigation nilotique et lagunaire sur la construction navale en Egypte ancienne

Mohamed M. ABD EL-MAGUID-Departement Central des Antiquites Sous-Marines, Egyptian Ministry ofAntiquities- Center for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage , Alexandria University

Senefrou (ca. 2700) sent 40 ships to import wood from Lebanon.Palermo stone

Naquada 3200 BC

•Early representations of boats

Naquada 3200 B.C.

The Gebel el-Arak Knife

Late pre-dynastic period (3300 - 3200 BC)

south of Abydos

Transporting granite columns from Asswanto Saqqara, Causeway of Ounas, 5th dynasty

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The Battle of the Delta, c. 1178 B.C. Ramesses III & the Sea People - Medinet Habu.

•War and warships

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• Trade

Queen Hatshepsut’s (1508 BC - 1458 BC) expedition to the land of Punt.

Fishing and hunting

Leisure

Religious

Funeral procession, Intef-Ikr Tomb,12th dynasty

Models

Scrap wood with marine borersMersa Gawasis, Red Sea, 12th dynasti

Boat & ships navigating on a certain water surface and adapted to its characteristics.

-Environment-Socio-economy -Culture

1- Rafts and papyrus boat

2- Planks forms and sizes

Small trees – crooked - lots of branches

3- Assemblage methods Lashing boat

Meidoumdynasty th4tomb, hotepRa

Assemblage methods: Sewing

Assemblage methods: T&M

Assemblage methods: Stitches

{• Khufu funerary boat (c. 2650 BC) is made of imported Lebanese cedar.

Dessin dal Pozzo(coll. Windsor)

Kybaia

Hull forms

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Amenophis II warship

Hogging Truss

Abusir, pyramid complex of Sahure, Dyn 5

Syrian trading venture to Egypt, Ken-Amoun Tomb, Thebes,

18th dynasty

The Ancient Towns of Canopus & Heraklion

Egyptian harbours located at, or east of, the Nile Mouths were constantly subject to silting as a result of annual Nile

sediment deposition.

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Satellite image 1996

Jomard – Jacotin 1809

Syrian trading venture to Egypt, Ken-Amoun Tomb, Thebes, 18th dynasti

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