Ark of bulrushes


The ark of bulrushes 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 to protect him from the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter.

Analysis

The ark is described as being daubed with asphalt and pitch, and the English word "ark" is a translation of the Hebrew תֵּבָה, a word similar to the Egyptian teb, meaning "a chest". It is also the same word used for Noah's Ark. The "bulrushes" were likely to have been papyrus stalks, daubed with bitumen and pitch.
A similar story is told of Sargon of Akkad.