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KING SAHURE ship

King Sahure is considered one of the most important pharaohs of the Old Kingom period. During his reign, Sahure led expeditions to Nubia, Sinai, the land of Punt, and Libya, extending Egypt's influence and control over these regions.

Sahure commissioned the earliest known oceangoing ships. His reign is credited with the earliest detailed representations of the types of seagoing vessels that were in use on the Mediterranean.
He commissioned ship builders from the area of the ancient city Byblos (current Lebanon) to create his ships. A great number of big ships of 70 to 80 tons displacement for long voyages were built. In size, they can be compared to Columbus's Santa Maria (100 tons) or his smaller ships Nina and Pinta (50 tons.)

King Sahure's reign witnessed the flourishing of the Egyptian navy. The king sent Egyptian fleet to Punt (later known as the ancient Greeks) which produced gold, aromatic resins, ebony, ivory, and wild animals. His ships also went to trade with cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levantine coast (bordered by Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine).

Sahure launched several naval expeditions to modern-day Lebanon to procure cedar trees, slaves, and exotic items.  Sahure is shown celebrating the success of this venture in a relief from his mortuary temple which shows him tending a myrrh tree in the garden of his palace named "Sahure's splendor soars up to heaven." This relief is the only one in Egyptian art depicting a king gardening. He also ordered military campaigns against Libyan chieftains in the Western Desert, bringing back livestock to Egypt.

Sahure's reign of 13 years marked the political and cultural high point of the Fifth Dynasty over 4,400 years ago. He is famous not only for his many military campaigns but also many building projects. His notable building projects included his pyramid complex which included a mortuary temple, a causeway, and a valley temple. He made the pyramid itself to have an unusual internal design, including a unique subterranean chamber that may have been used for religious rituals plus serve as his final resting place. Sahure is also credited for the cultural and artistic development of ancient Egypt. Important works of art included the "Palermo Stone" a significant historical document that records the early history of ancient Egypt. The king also commissioned several impressive sculptures, such as the "Sahure and a Nome God" statue. 


In King Sahure’s burial temple, parts of reliefs showed the departure and return of a fleet. A text on the relief mentioned that ships, sent to Punt in the thirteen year of Sahure’s reign, returned with 8,000 measures of myrrh, 6,000 of electrum and 2,600 logs of a rare wood. His pyramid had colonnaded courts and relief sculptures which illustrated his naval fleet and recorded his military career consisting mostly of campaigns against the Libyans in the western desert.

Shipbuilding in ancient Egypt is interesting for a variety of reasons. First of all that, historically it is the oldest art of shipbuilding to be known in any detail. Second, ancient Egyptian ships were not laid up on a keel, but got its structural strength from a gangway-connecting stern to bow.



This very beautiful model of the King Sahure's ship is 28" long x 23" tall x 10" wide $2,290
  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included, other places: $300 flat rate. This model is in stock and can be shipped within 5 business days.

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