Ark of bulrushes

The ark of bulrushes (Hebrew: תבת גמא, romanized: têḇaṯ gōme) was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses.

The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank[1] (presumably the Nile) to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child,[2] and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.

[3] Irving Finkel also notes similarities between the Biblical Hebrew term and the nearly identical Babylonian word for an oblong boat, ṭubbû.

[4] The "bulrushes" (Hebrew: גֹּ֫מֶא gome) were likely to have been papyrus stalks daubed with bitumen and pitch.

A similar but earlier story is told of Sargon of Akkad.