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.
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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 ancient Egypt and Greece, and to the oared ships used by the Bronze Age Mycenaean Greeks.
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Fine in fine jacket. Black & white illustrations, several maps. xxii, 321 pages. 4to, black cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, (2013). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1603444297. Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout. First edition. Bumped corners, else fine in a fine dust jacket.; 321 pages.
