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The Sailing Ship in Ancient Egypt

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ID3452118
AuthorsJames Hornell (corresponding author)
Year1943
Volume17
Issue65
Pages27-41
Publication date1943-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00017841
OpenAlexW1929176605
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Many attempts have been made to elucidate the problems created by a critical examination of the obscure constructional methods employed by the Ancient Egyptians when building sailing craft for use on the Nile and, alternatively, at sea. None has proved entierly satisfactoy. Two reasons are chiefly responsible; the first is lack of adequate knowledge on the part of most writers of the mechanical principles governing ship designing at the present day; the other is a similar lack of any wide and intimate acquaintance with the designs followed and methods employed by peoples who retain primitive features in the construction of their sailing craft, particularly on the Nile in its upper reaches beyond the confines of Egypt. That it has been my good fortune to have had opportunities to study at first-hand the construction of sailing craft in every important quarter of the world, and, in especial, that of those in use on all sections of the Nile from its mouths to its source in Uganda, is my excuse for the present attempt to explain away some of the difficulties that have troubled or misled so many previous writers on this subject

Ancient history · Archaeology · Craft · Excuse · Library science · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Subject (documents) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,06
Citation span1973 - 2014 (42)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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