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This reminded me of the Uluburun shipwreck[1]. This ship was built using "pegged mortise-and-tenon joints"[2]. It's not entirely clear how the Nile ship's con
by curtis 8y ago
This reminded me of the Uluburun shipwreck[1]. This ship was built using "pegged mortise-and-tenon joints"[2]. It's not entirely clear how the Nile ship's construction was different -- as another commenter mentioned, it would have been nice if they'd included a diagram.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck
[2] https://nauticalarch.org/projects/uluburun-late-bronze-age-shipwreck-excavation/ https://nauticalarch.org/projects/uluburun-late-bronze-age-s...
- dan-robertson 8y agoJust looking at the pictures it seems the Uluburun ship was made with long planks the length of the ship whereas the ship in the OP is made with 2 cubit (approx 1.5ft) planks mortice and tennoned together. The ships are also just different. The one in OP was about 25m long, flatter, made for the Nile and, it seems, of a kind described by Herodotus. The Uluburun ship was about 10m long, less flat, made for the Mediterranean, likely not made in Egypt, and several hundred years older.
- cryptonector 8y agoPage 11 of https://www.um.es/cepoat/arqueologiasubacuatica/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/A_new_type_of_construction_evidenced_by.pdf https://www.um.es/cepoat/arqueologiasubacuatica/wp-content/u... has a very nice diagram.
- afterburner 8y agoAlso top of page 7 for a close up of a tenon rib.