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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wachsmann, Shelley.

Series:

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galleys--Models--Egypt--Gurob (Extinct city).

Galleys.

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

Carriages and carts.

Shipbuilding--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Sources.

Shipbuilding.

Sea Peoples--Sources.

Sea Peoples.

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Gurob (Extinct city)--Relations--Sources.

Gurob (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-60344-746-6

OCLC:

861737714