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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825921403321

Autore

Wachsmann Shelley

Titolo

The Gurob ship-cart model and its Mediterranean context / / Shelley Wachsmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-60344-746-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series

Disciplina

932/.2

Soggetti

Galleys - Models - Egypt - Gurob (Extinct city)

Carriages and carts - Models - Egypt - Gurob (Extinct city)

Shipbuilding - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500

Sea Peoples

Egypt Antiquities

Gurob (Extinct city) Relations Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-[312]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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-