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The Gurob ship-cart model and its Mediterranean context /
When Shelley Wachsmann began his analysis of the small ship model excavated by assistants of famed Egyptologist W.M.F. Petrie in Gurob, Egypt, in 1920, he expected to produce a brief monograph that would shed light on the model and the ship type that it represented. Instead, Wachsmann discovered tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When Shelley Wachsmann began his analysis of the small ship model excavated by assistants of famed Egyptologist W.M.F. Petrie in Gurob, Egypt, in 1920, he expected to produce a brief monograph that would shed light on the model and the ship type that it represented. Instead, Wachsmann discovered that the model held clues to the identities and cultures of the enigmatic Sea Peoples, to the religious practices of ancient Egypt and Greece, and to the oared ships used by the Bronze Age Mycenaean Greeks. Although found in Egypt, the prototype of the Gurob model was clearly an Aegean- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781603447461 1603447466 129971868X 9781299718685 |