- Object Name:
- Ship Model
- Artist/Maker:
- Yosef Krupnik
- Designer:
- M. Pliner
- Title:
- Model of a Judean Merchantman
- Place Made:
- Haifa, Israel
- Date:
- 1973
- Medium:
- Wood: painted; cord; cloth
- Dimensions:
- 40 × 40 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (101.6 × 102.6 × 26 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Richard J. Scheuer
- Accession Number:
- JM 13-73
Not On View
This model ship was commissioned in the 1970s for exhibitions on the antiquities of Israel. Long since detached from that purpose, it remains as a work of fine craftsmanship, resonant with a sense of the distant past—both that of the Mideast and that of the museum.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.