Barge

A barge is a mast-less boat ; in a broader sense, all smaller watercraft are named that way. In contrast, a barque is a sailing ship with three or more masts.

The barge in ancient Egypt

King's barge in hieroglyphics

Old empire

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Cheops barque as a hawk barque

In ancient Egypt , barges played an important role in navigation on the Nile and had both cultic and cultural significance. In the early days , the royal barge was equipped with a simple directional post, which the king replaced with the post of the world ruler Re after the introduction of the cult of Re . For example, the 40 meter long ship King had Cheops a gold jacket and served as a big house of jurisprudence .

As part of the festivities of the escort of Horus , the king drove to several stops on the banks of the Nile with his royal barge. For this purpose, the king's barge represented the king himself as a symbol of God.

After the re-cult was introduced in the 5th dynasty , the sun god, according to the Egyptians' belief , drove a sun barge over the celestial arc during the day and crossed the waters of the underworld at night .

Deceased dignitaries were transported in solemn processions on barges across the river to their grave , and barge models were given for the dangerous journey through the underworld.

Magnificent barges in the Middle Ages

Even in later years, there were at the royal courts of different countries and cultures of the morning and the West ceremonial boats used for representational purposes of princes and officials were used.

Trivia

The religious song Barke sings about a scene from the Bible in which the apostles become fishers of men and leave their boats on the bank. It was written and composed by Cesáreo Gabaráin , translated into Polish by the priest Stanisław Szmidt and into Croatian by John Paul II . Pope John Paul II loved the song very much.
In rowing , the barque describes a type of boat for eight rowers who sit in two rows of four next to each other.

literature

Hans Bonnet : Bark. In: Hans Bonnet: Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd unchanged edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 78f.
Wolfgang Helck : Economic history of ancient Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. Brill, Leiden 1975, ISBN 90-04-04269-5 , pp. 21–32.
Björn Landström : Ships of the Pharaohs. 4000 years of Egyptian shipbuilding. Allen & Unwin, London 1970, ISBN 0-04-623008-4 , p. 120.

Web links

Wiktionary: Barke - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Barken - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Björn Landström: Ships of the Pharaohs. 4000 years of Egyptian shipbuilding. Allen & Unwin, London 1970, p. 120.

↑ Luke 5 : 1-11 EU

↑ Juan Pablo II Canta Pescador de Hombres ( Memento of July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). On: youtube.com accessed 23 May 2012 Design.

[1] Björn Landström: Ships of the Pharaohs. 4000 years of Egyptian shipbuilding. Allen & Unwin, London 1970, p. 120.