From classification to narrative: the contribution of iconography towards writing a history of early aegean shipbuilding

Mediterranean Historical Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-164

  Wedde, Michael ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1080/09518969608569711     Document Type: Article

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