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The Lotiform Chalice (c. 945–664 B.C.) is faience relief chalice. Images carved into the chalice depict fish, papyrus clumps, and lotus blooms. The vessel's images possibly portray legends surrounding the flooding of the Nile, an event that was of significant economic and spiritual importance to the ancient Egyptians. [1] [5]
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
[5] [6] About 2,000 BC, Hannu dispatches a fleet along the Red Sea coast to the Land of Punt; 1575–1520 BC Dover Bronze Age Boat, oldest known recovered plank vessel; About 1500 BC: Austronesians develop the fore-and-aft crab claw sail from an earlier V-shaped square sail. They also invent outrigger boat technology from earlier catamaran ...
Military vessel Ancient Rome Germany 49 ft (15 m) Oberstimm 2: 100 AD [51] [50] Military vessel Ancient Rome Germany (Manching) 50.5 ft (15.4 m) Barchino F: 2nd century AD [52] Boat Ancient Rome Italy (Pisa) 29.5 ft (9.0 m) Ship A: 2nd century AD [53] Shipping vessel Ancient Rome Italy (Pisa) 98 ft (30 m) [g] De Meern 1: 148 AD [54] Barge ...
This is a list of classic vessels around the world. These are veteran vessels being maintained or restored with the aim of keeping them in operation. Many are in use for regular sailings, cruises or on a charter basis. They can be owned privately, by public bodies or by preservation groups.
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The Lotus chalice or Alabaster chalice, called the Wishing Cup by Howard Carter, derives from the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun of the 18th Dynasty.The object received the find number 014 and was on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the inventory numbers JE 67465 and GEM 36. [2]