Seagoing Ships in the & Seamanship Bronze Age Levant by Shelley Wachsmann

Author:Shelley Wachsmann [Wachsmann, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1998-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 11.5. Part of ships’ rigging (lateral strengthening cables [?]) depicted on relief fragments from the Eleventh Dynasty temple at Deir el Bahri (from Naville and Hall 1913: pl. 13: 7; courtesy of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society)

Similarly, in a scene from the temple of Khonsu at Karnak, the royal galley of Herihor, which is taking part in the Opet ceremony, has a rig sporting a yard and boom. The sail is shown in the act of being furled to the yard by members of the crew (Fig. 11.7). The yard has been lowered to half-mast. Ten crewmen stand on the boom or climb on the lifts as they furl the sail in a manner reminiscent of that used on square-riggers during the Age of Sail. In the center, two men work lifts that continue vertically up the mast behind the yard (Fig. 11.7: A–B). These are probably the same lifts that held the tips of the yard in tension and which had to be released as the yard was lowered with the halyards.

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