Building pharaoh's ships: Cedar, incense and ... - British Museum
Building pharaoh's ships: Cedar, incense and ... - British Museum
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WARD BMSAES 18<br />
Fig. 1: The wood-to-wood, mortise-<strong>and</strong>-tenon fastening has a demonstrably indigenous origin<br />
in Egypt <strong>and</strong> was the primary fastening for seagoing <strong>ships</strong> of the Middle Kingdom. A<br />
trapezoidal slip of wood (tenon) is cut to fit tightly at its centre in a pair of mortises that<br />
are placed opposite each other in adjacent planks.<br />
Fig. 2: Mediterranean shipwrights typically used<br />
small pegs to lock tenons in place on each<br />
side of the plank seam. The pegs were<br />
placed perpendicular to the seam as a<br />
way to reduce longitudinal slippage along<br />
plank edges.<br />
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