Author: A. Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714109367
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Alan Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772892641
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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This volume presents over ninety papers in English, French, German and Italian from the Congress held at Copenhagen in 1992.

Author: A. Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This volume contains the publication of four seasons of excavation carried out by the British Museum at Tell el-Balamun in the Nile Delta, the site of the most northerly city of ancient Egypt. It looks at the history and archaeology of the site, in particular the development of the temple area.

Author: A. Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714109503
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: A. Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: James E. Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108482082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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This book is aimed at students, teachers, and academics who have an interest in the study of urbanism in Egypt and the ancient world. This book provides for the first time, an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of Egyptian urbanism during the Third Intermediate Period (1076-664 BCE).

Author: Ross Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191087467
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study will concentrate on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It will look at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.

Author: László Török
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211292
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and “hybrid” elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.

Author: Marsha Hill
Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
ISBN: 0856982563
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Over more than a century and a quarter of excavations the royal and administrative buildings in the city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hundreds of statues that had been part of Akhenaten's visionary plan. But fragmentation and dispersal have up until now made the results almost invisible. Only a relatively small number of the original statues have been widely known, even to experts. The present publication brings together all these traces of the city's past to reveal the abundance, beauty, variety, and novelty of the statuary and to begin the process of reintegrating it in considerations of the temples and palaces of the city. The work is presented in two parts. The first volume presents extensive observations about the creation of the statuary, comprising chapters dealing with the range of materials and the methods of working them, a detailed explication of the novel creation of composite statuary, and an overview of the workshop buildings that have been identified so far at Amarna. In the second volume, the excavated fragments themselves, most of them previously unpublished, are catalogued in a series of chapters devoted to individual royal buildings. The original statues are envisioned and analysed for their contexts, resulting in new information about these buildings, the intentions and concerns behind them, and the evolution in those intentions.