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Author Wachsmann, Shelley

Title The Gurob ship-cart model and its Mediterranean context / Shelley Wachsmann
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
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
Summary When the author 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, he 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-style galley of a type used by both the Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. The model is the most detailed representation presently known of this vessel type, which played a major role in changing the course of world history. Contemporaneous textual evidence for Sherden - one of the Sea Peoples - settled in the region suggests that the model may be patterned after a galley of that culture. Bearing a typical Helladic bird-head decoration topping the stempost, with holes along the sheer strakes confirming the use of stanchions, the model was found with four wheels and other evidence for a wagon-like support structure, connecting it with European cultic prototypes. Offering a wide range of insights and evidence for linkages among ancient Mediterranean peoples and traditions, this book is an asset for readers interested in the complexities of cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312) and index
Subject Galleys -- Models -- Egypt -- Gurob (Extinct city)
Carriages and carts -- Models -- Egypt -- Gurob (Extinct city)
Shipbuilding -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources
Sea Peoples -- Sources
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
Antiquities
Carriages and carts -- Models
International relations
Sea Peoples
Shipbuilding
SUBJECT Egypt -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263
Gurob (Extinct city) -- Relations -- Sources
Subject Egypt
Egypt -- Gurob (Extinct city)
Mediterranean Region
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012004368
ISBN 9781603447461
1603447466