Window into the Bible
Travel - Boats
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Model Boat
Date: c 2200 BC
Place: Sedment el-Gebel
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Model Boat
Date: c 2200 BC
Place: Sedment el-Gebel
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Model Boat
Date: c 2200 BC
Place: Sedment el-Gebel
Photographed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Model Boat
Date: 1981 – 1975 BC
Place: Tomb of Meketre, western Thebes, Egypt
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA.
Boat Model
Date: 2008 – 1957 BC
Place: Egypt
Photographed at the M. C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
With shield depicted on the roof, this is possibly a war or hunting boat.
Boat Model
Date: c 2150 BC
Place: Sedment, Egypt
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nile Boat
Date: 2000 – 1900 BC
Place: Thebes, Egypt
Photographed at the Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Italy.
Model of a Boat
Date: 4300 – 3200 BC.
Place: Egypt
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Made from terracotta
Model of a Boat
Date: 4300 – 3200 BC.
Place: Egypt
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Made from terracotta
Painted Wooden Model of a Boat with Sail
Date: 1985 – 1795 BC
Place: unknown
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Bitumen Boat Model
Date: 2300 – 2150 BC
Place: Akkadian grave at Ur [Iraq]
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
In southern Mesopotamia people used simple boats like this made from reeds, skins or wood and waterproofed with bitumen (a naturally occurring oil product)