Boat models from the Early Dynastic settlement of Elkab: New insights on the archaeology of early pharaonic domestic contexts
| dc.contributor.author | Vanhulle, Dorian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Claes, Wouter | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Tristant, Yann | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Villaeys, Julie | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Ryan, Ellen M. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Egypt | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Elkab | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | Early Dynastic period | en_US |
| dc.date | 2024 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-15T15:59:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-15T15:59:50Z | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789042952225 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/13547 | |
| dc.description | Since 2009 the excavations of the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) at the Upper Egyptian site of Elkab have continued to reveal the origins and dynamic development of this provincial town site. From a small community with a subsistence economy that was primarily based on farming and fishing in the Predynastic period, it expanded and developed from the Early Dynastic period onwards into a fully urbanised society. During the excavation of several well-dated 2nd Dynasty domestic house contexts, six fragmentary boat models were discovered. These small objects raise interesting questions regarding daily life in a provincial settlement at the onset of the 3rd millennium BCE. Boat models are indeed well known from funerary or cultic spheres, but few of them have been discovered in a settlement context. Like anthropomorphic and zoomorphic statuettes, they are generally considered to be ex-votos and their presence inside settlements allows us to reconsider the evolution and functions of these remarkable objects. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Peeters | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323 | en_US |
| dc.title | Boat models from the Early Dynastic settlement of Elkab: New insights on the archaeology of early pharaonic domestic contexts | en_US |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
| dc.subject.frascati | History and Archaeology | en_US |
| dc.audience | Scientific | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | Egyptian archaeology | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | Settlement archaeology | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | Boat models | en_US |
| dc.source.title | Egypt at its Origins 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”, Paris, 19th – 23rd September 2022 | en_US |
| dc.source.page | 715-738 | en_US |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Yes | en_US |