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Author: Marjorie Susan Venit
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781316465608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (ca. 300 BCE-250 CE).
Author: Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1107048087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Christina Riggs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 019927665X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Kerry Muhlestein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9004416382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Dorian Borbonus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1107031400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the architecture of columbarium tombs and explains their unique design with the particular social experience of their non-elite occupants.
Author: Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780521806596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning 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.
Author: Katelijn Vandorpe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-06-05
Total Pages: 789
ISBN-13: 1118428471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative and multidisciplinary Companion to Egypt during the Greco‐Roman and Late Antique period With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the liberation of Egypt from Persian rule by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and ending in AD 642, when Arab rule started in the Nile country. The Companion takes a largely sociological perspective and includes a section on life portraits at the end of each part. The theme of identity in a multicultural environment and a chapter on the quality of life of Egypt's inhabitants clearly illustrate this objective. The authors put the emphasis on the changes that occurred in the Greco-Roman and Late Antique periods, as illustrated by such topics as: Traditional religious life challenged; Governing a country with a past: between tradition and innovation; and Creative minds in theory and praxis. This important resource: Discusses how Egypt became part of a globalizing world in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times Explores notable innovations by the Ptolemies and Romans Puts the focus on the longue durée development Offers a thematic and multidisciplinary approach to the subject, bringing together scholars of different disciplines Contains life portraits in which various aspects and themes of people’s daily life in Egypt are discussed Written for academics and students of the Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt period, this Companion offers a guide that is useful for students in the areas of Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and New Testament studies.
Author: Glenys Davies
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0521842735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-06-16
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0521461235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Author: Anna Lucille Boozer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1108830927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws together a wide range of evidence across disciplines to show how the ordinary people of Roman Egypt experienced and enacted change.
