Author: W. V. Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780861590292
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Royal Statue Reattributed
Author: W. V. Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780861590292
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780861590292
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Royal Statue Reattributed
A Royal Statue Reattributed
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art
Author: Melinda K. Hartwig
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118325087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art • Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works • Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation, • Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118325087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art • Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works • Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation, • Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’
Visualizing Coregency
Author: Lisa Saladino Haney
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
In Visualizing Coregency, Lisa Saladino Haney presents both a comprehensive accounting of the evidence for coregency during Egypt’s 12th Dynasty and a detailed analysis of the full corpus of royal statuary attributed to Senwosret III and Amenemhet III.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
In Visualizing Coregency, Lisa Saladino Haney presents both a comprehensive accounting of the evidence for coregency during Egypt’s 12th Dynasty and a detailed analysis of the full corpus of royal statuary attributed to Senwosret III and Amenemhet III.
Opening the Tablet Box
Author: Sarah Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004186522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004186522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.
The Canopic Equipment Of The Kings of Egypt
Author: Aidan Dodson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136158219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
First published in 1994. The term 'Canopic', as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity. The aims of this monograph are primarily archaeological and historical, to document all canopic equipment attributable to the kings of Egypt, and to discuss each element in its spatial and temporal context. Translations of all available texts are provided, but no attempt is made to discuss them from a detailed religious or philological standpoint.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136158219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
First published in 1994. The term 'Canopic', as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity. The aims of this monograph are primarily archaeological and historical, to document all canopic equipment attributable to the kings of Egypt, and to discuss each element in its spatial and temporal context. Translations of all available texts are provided, but no attempt is made to discuss them from a detailed religious or philological standpoint.
Chief Of Seers
Author: Elizabeth Goring
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136156739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an international team of leading scholars, are a major contribution to Egyptian art history, to Egyptology and to art history in general.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136156739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an international team of leading scholars, are a major contribution to Egyptian art history, to Egyptology and to art history in general.
A Companion to Ancient Egypt, 2 Volume Set
Author: Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444320068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
This companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. Delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization. Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt?s ancient history and culture Covers a broad scope of topics including physical context, history, economic and social mechanisms, language, literature, and the visual arts Delivered in a highly readable style with students and scholars of both Egyptology and Graeco-Roman studies in mind Provides a chronological table at the start of each volume to help readers orient chapters within the wider historical context
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444320068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
This companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. Delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization. Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt?s ancient history and culture Covers a broad scope of topics including physical context, history, economic and social mechanisms, language, literature, and the visual arts Delivered in a highly readable style with students and scholars of both Egyptology and Graeco-Roman studies in mind Provides a chronological table at the start of each volume to help readers orient chapters within the wider historical context
Ancient Egyptian Literature
Author: Antonio Loprieno
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004676716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
This volume deals with the development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BCE) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300 BCE-200 CE). This book, the result of an international co-operation among more than twenty scholars, is divided into sections devoted to the definition of literary discourse in Ancient Egypt; the history and genres of these texts, their linguistic and stylistic features; and the image of Ancient Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions of the Mediterranean world - Greek, Coptic, Arabic. With over thirty chapters, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of current research in one of the methodologically most advanced fields of Egyptology.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004676716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
This volume deals with the development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BCE) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300 BCE-200 CE). This book, the result of an international co-operation among more than twenty scholars, is divided into sections devoted to the definition of literary discourse in Ancient Egypt; the history and genres of these texts, their linguistic and stylistic features; and the image of Ancient Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions of the Mediterranean world - Greek, Coptic, Arabic. With over thirty chapters, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of current research in one of the methodologically most advanced fields of Egyptology.