kelek

• But his further description shows that he is here referred to the kelek or skin-raft with which he has combined a description of the kuffah The late Sir Henry Rawlinson has never seen or heard of a skin-covered kuffah on either the Tigris or Euphrates, and there can be little doubt that bitumen was employed for their construction in antiquity, as it is to-day. —  Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition

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