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Voiliers arabes dans le Nil (Arab Sailboats on the Nile)
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Voiliers arabes dans le Nil (Arab Sailboats on the Nile)

Artist/Maker (Greece (active Algiers and Egypt), active 1860-1889)
Dateca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsSight: 9 1/2 x 12 in. (24.1 x 30.5 cm)
Mat: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
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    Object number2006.34.3.2
    DescriptionWith the annual fluctuations in the level of the Nile due to the inundation, the prime sailing time for large vessels was - before the construction of the High Dam at Aswan - limited to the six months between July and December. For this reason, a year-round use of small boats was often preferred. Even during the reign of Ramesses II, the fleet that carried sandstone blocks from the quarries of Gebel Silsileh (near Kom Ombo) to Thebes for the construction of the Ramesseum, the king's mortuary temple, consisted of small craft, each of which carried only 5 to 7 blocks, about 15 tons. Attested already in antiquity, the triangular lateen sail was to become during Byzantine times and the early Middle Ages the most important sail of the Mediterranean world. The tall, narrow lateen - perhaps derived from a braided-up square sail with a slanted yard for sailing close-hauled in a hard wind - is well suited to catching the breezes skimming above the Nile between the looming desert escarpments.
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