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This fresh categorisation and examination grew from the author's
innate curiosity about the shapes and forms of the ships and boats
of the Ancient World and particularly of the Ancient Egyptians.
Many years sailing and the book by Nancy Jenkins, "The Boat beneath
the Pyramid" which considered the vessel buried alongside the Great
Pyramid of Giza sparked this curiosity, and from this start point,
the focus of the research moved to the catalogue of model vessels
in the Cairo Museum collection, published by Reisner, and the
surviving hulls from Dahshur. These sources were augmented and
supported by the work by Boreux. Finds such as the timbers from
Lisht added valuable information. An interest in the greater
variety of vessels to be known from the Old and Middle Kingdoms
concentrated the researcher's attention upon the craft of these
periods. Three fragmentary examples of hull forms, supposedly not
known until the Old Kingdom, have been included, as the
categorization system proposed in this research attempts to push
back the previously accepted dates of some Egyptian hull shapes.
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