Solar barge

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Ra in his solar barge
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Ra in his solar barge

A solar barge (also solar bark, solar barque, solar boat, sun boat) is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat.

The "Khufu ship", a 43.6 m long vessel sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC, is a full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic function of a solar barque.

  • Neolithic petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing solar barges
  • The Egyptian god Ra, and later Horus, rides in a solar barge
  • The Nebra sky disk has been speculated to feature a depiction of a solar barge [1]

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