Mortise and tenon
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A mortise and tenon is a joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material. Woodworkers around the world have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining pi
Tusked-through tenons used on a French granary
Egyptian stool with through tenons, c. 1991–1450 BC
Experimental archaeology; cutting a mortise with a cannonbone chisel
A through mortise is used in this wooden hinge.
Phoenician joint
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A Phoenician joint is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls. The locked mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket
Mortise and tenon
…and fashioned with mortise-and-tenon joints before they were erected between 2600 and 2400 BC. A variation of the mortise-and-tenon technique, called Phoenician joints (from the Latin coagmenta punicana) was extensively used in ancient shipbuilding to assemble hull planks and other watercraft components together. It…
Mortise and tenon joinery in the Mazarron 1 Phoenician shipwreck
Model of Khufu's Solar barque with its deck removed to expose the hull. The ship's planks and frames are lashed together with halfah grass.
Coin of Abdashtart I, Achaemenid Phoenicia
PHOENICIA, Sidon. Tennes. Circa 351 347 BC