The Legacy Of Egypt

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and b7 the Eighteenth Dynasty craft had been constructed to
carry weights of 650 tons and upwards (Fig. 15). Tomb scenes
and models show that during the ages a multitude of types of
craft were used. Some had cabins, others pens for cattle, while

FIG. 16. Plan of a royal barge from El-Lisht showing its construction of small
pieces of wood. Xllth Dynast/5 Cairo Museum,

FIG. 17. Boat-builders, from the XIIth-Dynasty tomb of Khnemhotpe at
Beni Hasan.
many seem to have been constructed for merchandise only;
others were warships pure and simple*. The model ships give
little detail of the construction of the hulls apart from their
shape, but two large Twelfth Dynasty boats from El-Lisht, now
in the Cairo Museum, and several boat-building scenes, notably
one of the Middle Kingdom from Beni Hasan (Figs. 16 and 17),