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- Master thesis
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Ships, Change and Chronology
- Author
- Uildriks, Martin
- Note
- D-Ware pottery from the Egyptian Predynastic period is characterized by decorations, which researchers always considered ships. Consequently, these decorations are fundamental to many theories regarding early Dynastic religion and foreign exchange contacts with for instance Mesopotamia. Regardless, D-Ware has never been critically considered. In this thesis D-Ware is re-considered through a catalogue that was developed by the author in order to study the variability of the decorations and its iconographical components (units). It is then suggested that many scholars apparently have a vivid imagination, the iconography seems to develop and that thus our understanding of these decorations is merely superficial.
- Faculty
- Faculty of Archaeology
- Specialisation
- Archaeology of the Near East
- Supervisors
- Bintliff, J.L.
- ECTS Credits
- 20
- Evaluation
- Recommended
- Language
- en