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Credits for the figures File 1: website_fig1_layard_monuments_I_1853_71Source: A. H. Layard, The Monuments of Nineveh, London, 1853, plate 71.Description: Phoenician warships and freighters (wall relief, Nineveh, South-West Palace, Throneroom, slab 14, reign of Sennacherib, 704–681 BCE).File 2: website_fig2_layard_monuments_II_1853_12Source: A. H. Layard, A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, London, 1853, plate 12.Description: Round basket-like boat with hide covering (wall relief, Nineveh, South-West Palace, Hall VI, slab 53, reign of Sennacherib, 704–681 BCE).File 3: website_fig3_layard_monuments_II_1853_13Source: A. H. Layard, A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, London, 1853, plate 13.Description: Assyrian raft made of wood and inflated skins (wall relief, Nineveh, South-West Palace, Hall VI, slab 54, reign of Sennacherib, 704–681 BCE).File 4: website_fig4_ward_seal_cylinders_1910_40_102Source: W. H. Ward, The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia, Washington, 1910, 40, fig. 102.Description: The boat journey of the god Ea (cylinder seal impression, ca. 2300–2150 BCE)File 5: website_fig5_legrain_archaic_seal_impressions_1936_pl_16_300Source: L. Legrain, Archaic Seal-Impressions, New York, 1936 (Ur Excavations III), plate 16, 300.Description: Boat with high horn-like stern and prow decorated with leaf ornaments. The boatman is armed with a long pole. (seal impression, Early Dynastic, from Ur).File 6: website_fig6_legrain_archaic_seal_impressions_1936_pl_28_492Source: L. Legrain, Archaic Seal-Impressions, New York, 1936 (Ur Excavations III), plate 28, 492.Description: Crescent-shaped boat with two boatmen equipped with round paddles (seal impression, Early Dynastic, from Ur).