Speakers

Mr Nour  Badr
Conservator, Conservation Center, Grand Egyptian Museum, Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt

Biography:

Nour Mohamed Badr is a Conservator at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) and a PhD candidate. He is currently working on two important projects: the salvation and conservation of the Second Khufu Boat project with the Waseda University mission and the detachment of the 1^st Dynasty boats excavated by the IFAO mission at Abu Rawash archaic necropolis and their conservation and reconstruction procedures. He is primarily interested in comparing ancient Egyptian paintings to those of the Late Period, as well as early first aid treatments. He is also interested in studying organic polychrome objects, wood, and pigments.

Abstract:

Abu Rawash Boat: Preliminary report
Mohamed Abd El-Maguid
Basem Gehad
Mohamed Ragab
Nour Badr

In 2012, a joint venture between of the IFAO and Macquarie University, revealed a boat related to the Mastaba no.M06, in the archaic cemetery (M) at Abu Rawash; the boat pit was located towards the northern side of the Mastaba, with an axis east-west. The boat's grave measures approximately 16m long and 1.5m wide. Only 6.53m long and 1.30m wide wooden planks remained forming about 55% of the hull. In situ molding/coping of the profile or the section of the pit was made using molded and reshaped wood to fit accurately with the pit shape or section. This wooden copy was taken to the laboratory in order to calculate depth, profile and curvature angel. The remains of the wooden boat, now housed in GEM, were scanned using a 2D-high-resolution scanner; the remains of the boat were then compared to most of the boat findings from Ancient Egypt; a 3D model was created based on the information, which confirms that the hull shape was a flat bottom boat, which could be found nowadays in Egypt, functioning as a means of transportation in small river canals.