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analysis of tomb reliefs depicting boat construction from the Old Kingdom period in Egypt
xiv, 161 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
adzes were kept ready to remove flatspots. The procedure of
Among the aspects of daily life represented on the walls of
construction and how they we,-e used is of great relevance.
created to be blueprints of boat construction procedures but
depicting the construction of boat hulls. Examination of the
Hull symmetry was checked with the aid of a plumb bob while
in his afterlife. The majority of the procedures relate to
internal traverse lashed joinery and are not the hogging
joining planks edge-to-edge with mortise-and-tencn joints is
launched. The depiction of the tools necessary for hull
methodology of wooden hull construction. These reliefs were
of various steps required for this procedure in most reliefs
period provides numerous insights into the technology and
planks in this manner required a team of men working together
private tombs during the Old Kingdom in Egypt are reliefs
rather to ensure that the owner of the tomb would have boats
representcd with great detail in the Ty relief. Joining
suggests thats its employment was pervasive.
the final stages of constru ction prior to the hull being
truss stretching from end to end were used to tighten
trusses seen on seagoing ships and cargo vessels. Depictions
twenty known reliefs and relief fragments which date to this
while being supervised. Reliefs which show hulls with a rope
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