Ahnas El Medineh (Heracleopolis Magna)
Author: Edouard Naville
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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Image and Response in Early Europe
Author: Peter S. Wells
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2008-05-29
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid people in the Iron Age see their bronze figurines and sculpted stones differently from the way we see them today? How can we approach the problem of determining how they saw things? How different was their experience viewing these objects in the course of their use, from ours as we look at them in museum cases or through photographs in books? Recent research in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology forms the theoretical basis for a new approach to understanding the visual basis of communication in early Europe. The focus is on societies from the Early Iron Age to the early medieval period in temperate Europe, at the time that traditions of writing were gradually being adopted in this part of the world.Following review of the most relevant results of new experiments and observations in those sciences, Peter S. Wells examines the visual aspects of the archaeological evidence to investigate the role that visuality - the visual quality of things - played in the expression of the self, in interaction between members of social groups, in ritual activity, and in the creation and experience of cultural landscapes.
The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon
Author: Ricardo Augusto Caminos
Publisher: Pontificio Istituto Biblico
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hieroglyphic texts with which this volume is concerned record the deeds of the eldest son of King Takelothis II of the Twenty-second Dynasty, Prince Osorkon, who was the holder of religious, political, and military posts of great consequence during the troubled reigns of his father and of King Shoshenk III, towards the end of the ninth and at the beginning of the eighth centuries B.C.
The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780192839664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This anthology contains all the substantial surviving works from the golden age of Ancient Egyptian fictional literature (c.1940-1640 B.C.). Composed by an anonymous author in the form of a funerary autobiography, the Tale tells how the courtier Sinuhe flees Egypt at the death of his king. His adventures bring wealth and happiness, but his failure to find meaningful life abroad is only redeemed by the new king's sympathy, and he finally returns to the security of his homeland. Other works from the Middle Kingdom include a poetic dialogue between a man and his soul on the problem of suffering and death, a teaching about the nature of wisdom which is bitterly spoken by the ghost of the assassinated King Amenemhat I, and a series of light-hearted tales of wonder from the court of the builder of the Great Pyramid."--Jacket.
Letters from Ancient Egypt
Author: Edward Frank Wente
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides translations of most of the letters that have survived reasonably intact from the Old Kingdom through the Twenty-first Dynasty of ancient Egypt. An introduction provides information relating to ancient Egyptian epistolography and discussion regarding the transmission of letters. The organization of the book is basically chronological, with separate sections devoted to royal letters and letters sent by and to the vizier. Also included are several model letters that were used in the education of the Egyptian scribe.--Publisher description.
The Rock Tombs of Meir
Author: Aylward Manley Blackman
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Author: Barry J. Kemp
Publisher: New Aspects of Antiquity
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780500291207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“In the process of reconstituting a long-vanished city, the meticulously assembled book also brings to life the exotic, almost alien society once housed there.” —Publishers Weekly
Saqqâra Tombs: The mastaba of Neferseshemptah
Author: Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The mastaba of Neferseshemptah is a well-known monument of the Saqqara necropolis, lying in the 'Street of Tombs' within the Teti Pyramid Cemetery. In this new publication the full extent of the tomb and its decoration is revealed for the first time. The partly-finished chambers in the western part of the mastaba, ignored in older works, have been cleared and fully recorded by photography and in epigraphic copies. The inscriptional material is discussed in detail and loose blocks from various sources, found in the excavation of the western chambers, are included. Consideration is also given to the architecture of the tomb."--BOOK JACKET.
The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun
Author: R. B. Parkinson
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The eleven sections of wall-painting from Nebamun's lost tomb-chapel from c. 1350 B.C. are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum's treasures." "The paintings decorated the walls of an Egyptian official's tomb-chapel, displaying his status and activities in this life and the next. The accountant Nebamun, eternally youthful and vigorous, is shown hunting in the marshes and overseeing his servants and animals on the estates he managed. The paintings offer us fascinating glimpses of the world of ancient Egypt as the governing class wished it to be seen. Ancient visitors would bring offerings and prayers to Nebamun in this colourful chapel, and the paintings were intended to be seen and appreciated by them. Their beauty and vitality are admirably captured in the new detailed photography which has been taken especially for this book." "The process of conservation and analysis in the Museum's specialist laboratories has revealed new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt, and a detailed study has resulted in new reconstructions of the paintings. This work, together with research in the Museum's archives, is helping to solve the problem of the tomb-chapel's location near modern Luxor, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed." "Richard Parkinson discusses the history of the paintings from ancient to modern times. He describes each painting fully, with translations of the hieroglyphic texts, and reconstructs the full scenes from which each fragment comes. Discussions of the other known fragments from the tomb-chapel (now in Berlin, Avignon and Lyon) are included. Every painting is illustrated in colour with numerous close-up details, doing full justice to these artists who have been described as 'antiquity's equivalent of Michelangelo'."--BOOK JACKET.
Assyrian Palace Sculptures
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 160606648X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Collins leads a breathtaking lion hunt in his marvellous introduction to one of the British Museum’s fiercest and most famous treasures” (Times [UK]) Between the ninth and seventh centuries BCE, the small kingdom of Assyria (present-day northern Iraq) expanded through conquest from Egypt to Iran. The relief sculptures that decorated Assyrian palaces represent the high point of Mesopotamian art of the first millennium BCE, both for their artistic quality and their vivid depictions of warfare, rituals, mythology, hunting, and other aspects of Assyrian life. Together, the sculptures constitute some of the most impressive and eloquent witnesses of the ancient Near East, their importance only increasing with the recent destruction by ISIS of many of the reliefs that remained in Iraq. Originally published by the British Museum in 2008, this book serves as a superb visual introduction to these extraordinary sculptures, showcasing a series of stunning photographs of the museum’s unrivaled collection of Assyrian reliefs. Highlighting individual panels and their often overlooked details, these images capture the majesty of Assyrian kings, their splendid courts, and protecting divinities. An introduction by Collins sets the sculptures in their cultural and art historical context, while the following chapters provide a brief history of Assyria and its royal palaces as well as an overview of the artworks’ discovery, reception, and understanding.
