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Egypt Sailing Ship 18\" Home Décor Teak Wood Brass Egyptian Pharaoh Boat Vessel For Sale
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Egypt Sailing Ship 18\" Home Décor Teak Wood Brass Egyptian Pharaoh Boat Vessel :
$55.99
This is an Amazing Hand-Made VINTAGE EgyptianWooden Boat With Brass detailing, featuringa ScorpionTail Ships Stern (Rear), a prominentbrass spiked Bowsprit (Front), and it\'s Filled With People holding oars in ready to ferry their Pharaohinto the Afterlife.Though not exact in detail, it is believed to be a model representation of the famousKhufu ship found buried at the foot of his tomb.- this was found in Egypt.It has some strange energy to it.PERFECT Home or Office Décor, having only a 2\" \"Beam\" or width to it doesn\'t take up too much desk, table, or shelf Real-Estate, leaving still usable table surface or work area while being displayed.VERY COOL and Unique~I\'ve never seen another one like it.
Size is 18\" long and 2\" wide and 8.75\" tall
EXCELLENT VINTAGE CONDITION ~ ONLY MINOR STRESSES ON SOME OF THE BRASS AREAS WHERE IT\'S BEEN NAILED TO THE WOOD (PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR DETAIL) AN EASY FIX, BUT IT\'S ALSO SOMETHING YOU DON\'T EVEN NOTICE UNLESS YOU ARE SPACIFICALLY LOOKING FOR FLAWS. BEAUTIFUL MODEL SHIP PERFECT FOR ANY HOME DECOR, IN GREAT CONDITION. This is being sold AS-IS due to it\'s age and materials used in construction, so please view ALL photographs because I consider them to be a big part of the description!ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPTION SAILING SHIPS FOR THE AFTERLIFE:
Among the many dazzling discoveries were the Ancient Egyptian solar ships and boat pits found at some sites in the country. The most famous boat of all is the Khufu ship, restored and preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum on the south side of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Khufu ship, built for Khufu (King Cheops), was one of the two discovered vessels in 1954 by the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh. Seed into a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Khufu had stood still since around 2500 BC. Almost 95% of it was made of Lebanon cedar. With great care and thoroughness, the 1,224 pieces of the vessel were reassembled over the course of not months, but years, and due in large part to the exceptional efforts of Haj Ahmed Youssef.
Haj Youssef, a chief restorer at the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, needed to learn a lot about Ancient Egyptian boat-making for the boat reconstruction, and he studied old reliefs and scrutinized many little wooden models of ships and boats found in tombs. In the hope that modern Egyptian shipbuilders might have cultivated methods that would give an idea how Ancient Egyptians built their ships, Haj Ahmed also visited some Nile shipyards before reconstructing Khufu.
Full-sized ships and boats have been found buried at several locations close to Ancient Egyptians temples and pyramids. However, the precise function and the full story behind these ships, like many other things about Ancient Egypt, will never be fully understood by our civilization. After all, that’s why Ancient Egypt is often called the greatest riddle of all.
It seems likely that the Khufu was a solar ship, a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat. These boats are also called “solar barks” or “sun boats.” “Atet” was the most famous sun boat of them all, belonging to Ra, the Egyptian god of the sun. Given this context, the Khufu Ship may well have had a symbolic function as a sun boat, carrying the king to the afterlife.
What makes the Khufu ship so special, as well as being dedicated to a pharaoh, is that it is one of the oldest, the largest, and the best-preserved vessels from antiquity. Further described as a “masterpiece of woodcraft”, it is also acknowledged as the world’s oldest fully preserved ship. If placed in a lake or river, it would have no problem in being able to sail. Despite its exemplary design, it was not intended for sailing or any other use on actual water. Dedicated to Khufu (King Cheops), the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Khufu ship was most certainly a ritual vessel.
143 feet long and 19.6 feet wide, Khufu, along with the rest of the buried Ancient Egyptian ships, was part of the extensive “afterlife” goods that were provided for deceased kings in the ancient days.
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