Boats

Boats

by Jones, Dilwyn

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"Drawing on archaeological and literary evidence, Dilwyn Jones examines the importance of the boat in Egyptian ritual and belief, as well as in everyday life. The sun god was thought to travel across the sky in a solar boat, and Egyptians believed that the deserving might join the god Osiris in his divine bark after death. Boats played an important part in funerary ritual; models were often placed in tombs to provide the deceased with safe passage through the Winding Waterway in the underworld.…

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  • Full title :Boats / Dilwyn Jones.

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"Drawing on archaeological and literary evidence, Dilwyn Jones examines the importance of the boat in Egyptian ritual and belief, as well as in everyday life. The sun god was thought to travel across the sky in a solar boat, and Egyptians believed that the deserving might join the god Osiris in his divine bark after death. Boats played an important part in funerary ritual; models were often placed in tombs to provide the deceased with safe passage through the Winding Waterway in the underworld. Also, boats are frequently depicted in tomb paintings." "The Nile has always been a vital transport artery for Egypt and boats the principal means of travel. Early papyrus skiffs gradually gave way to wooden craft of increasing size and sophistication, ranging from fishing boats and barges to seagoing warships, splendid ships of state and enormous obelisk barges used to transport stone to temples and monuments. Dilwyn Jones traces the development of the different types of boats and the techniques of their construction through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods." "The book is illustrated with photographs of boat models and paintings and with line drawings."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1995.
  • Edition:1st University of Texas Press ed

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The Physical Object

  • Description:96 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0292740395, 9780292740396
  • oclc:ocm32504878
  • LC Classification:GV776.83.A2
  • Dewey Decimal:623.8/21/0932

Subjects

Ägypten Ägypten <Altertum> Boats and boating Boats and boating -- History. -- Egypt Boot Bootsbau Civilization Egypt Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C Égypte -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 332 a… Geschichte History Navires anciens -- Égypte Navires en bois -- Égypte Ritual Schiffbau Ships, Ancient Ships, Ancient -- Egypt Ships, Wooden Ships, Wooden -- Egypt

Writers

Jones, Dilwyn

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