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228 WARD BMSAES 18 Fig. 1: The wood-to-wood, mortise-and-tenon fastening has a demonstrably indigenous origin in Egypt and was the primary fastening for seagoing ships of the Middle Kingdom. A trapezoidal slip of wood (tenon) is cut to fit tightly at its centre in a pair of mortises that are placed opposite each other in adjacent planks. Fig. 2: Mediterranean shipwrights typically used small pegs to lock tenons in place on each side of the plank seam. The pegs were placed perpendicular to the seam as a way to reduce longitudinal slippage along plank edges. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_18/ward.aspx
2012 PHARAOH’S SHIPS Fig. 3: Planks from the remains of seagoing ships at Gawasis seem to have been less than 3.5m long. Rather than being parallel, edges were shaped to avoid long, straight runs of plank seams, and instead the plank’s width varied regularly over its length. Planks were often lozenge-shaped, that is, wider in the centre than at the ends. The planking layout in the hull of Min of the Desert illustrates these basic principles of Egyptian hull construction (see above, p. 233–35). Fig. 4: Finely detailed representations of seagoing ships at Hatshepsut’s Deir el- Bahri funerary monument provided the details necessary to create a rigging plan for Min of the Desert. 229 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_18/ward.aspx
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