Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Author: Marjorie Susan Venit

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1107048087

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This book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE-250 CE). The author contextualizes the tombs within their social, political, and religious context and considers how the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.

Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Author: Marjorie Susan Venit

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 131646248X

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Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (c.300 BCE–250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances. This book sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.

Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery
Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery

Author: Kerry Muhlestein

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9004416382

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In Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, the excavation team provides crucial information about the Old Kingdom and Graeco-Roman Egypt. While both periods have been heavily studied, Kerry Muhlestein and his contributors provide new archaeological information that will help shape thinking about these eras. The construction and ritual features of the early Fourth Dynasty Seila Pyramid represents innovations that would influence royal funerary cult for hundreds of years. Similarly, as one of the largest excavated cemeteries of Egypt, Fag el-Gamous helps paint a picture of multi-cultural life in the Fayoum of Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Excavations there provide a statistically impactful understanding of funerary customs under the influence of new cultures and religion.

The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt
The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt

Author: Christina Riggs

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 019927665X

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This important new study looks at coffins, masks, shrouds, and tombs from the Roman Period in Egypt, when naturalistic Greek art forms, like portraits, were combined with traditional Egyptian art. The book presents more than 150 objects and tombs, many for the first time, and reveals how they created a 'beautiful burial' to glorify the dead in the changing cultural landscape of Roman Egypt.

Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria
Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria

Author: Marjorie Susan Venit

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9780521806596

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Spanning the life of the ancient city almost from 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. They attest to the diversity and the cohesion of the community, its population's wealth and love of luxury, sense of theatricality and pomp, and cosmopolitan attitude. Alexandria's monumental tombs confirm the changing ethos of the city's populace, as the tombs provide the stage on which the city's continuity and shifting concerns are played out.

The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy
The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy

Author: Meredith Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107025575

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This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century.

The Demography of Roman Egypt
The Demography of Roman Egypt

Author: Roger S. Bagnall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-06-16

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0521461235

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By studying the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt, the authors reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt.