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UNINA9910463566703321 |
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Autore |
Wachsmann Shelley |
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Titolo |
The Gurob ship-cart model and its Mediterranean context [[electronic resource] /] / Shelley Wachsmann |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Galleys - Models - Egypt - Gurob (Extinct city) |
Carriages and carts - Models - Egypt - Gurob (Extinct city) |
Shipbuilding - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 |
Sea Peoples |
Electronic books. |
Egypt Antiquities |
Gurob (Extinct city) Relations Sources |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-[312]) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Gurob ship-cart model -- The iconographic evidence -- Wheels, wagons, and the transport of ships overland -- Foreigners at Gurob -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Lines drawing of the Gurob ship model / Alexis Catsambis -- Appendix 2: The Gurob ship-cart model in virtual reality / Donald H. Sanders -- Appendix 3: Ship colors in the Homeric poems / Dan Davis -- Appendix 4: Sherden and Tjuk-people in the Wilbour papyrus -- Appendix 5: Radiocarbon age analysis of the Gurob ship-cart model / Christine A. Prior -- Appendix 6: Analysis of pigments from the Gurob ship-cart model / Ruth Siddall -- Appendix 7: Wood identification / Caroline Cartwright -- Glossary of nautical terms. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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