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Author: Ryna Ordynat
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-03-31
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1784917796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this study is to examine Anthropomorphic objects from the Egyptian Predynastic in terms of their original context to determine what role they played in Predynastic burials. A database comprising all provenanced anthropomorphic Predynastic objects has been composed in order to conduct a detailed analysis.
Author: Colin A. Hope
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-01-19
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1803274328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University in 2016 and dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen who retired from Monash that year. The contributions include several on Egypt’s Western Desert where Monash has been engaged in fieldwork for many years in the the Dakhleh Oasis.
Author: Audrey Gouy
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2023-05-04
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1789257999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people together or opposes them. It is a communicative tool that gives crucial information for understanding the dance as well as the culture and the sociological effects of a group of people. As such, dress transcends how it is seen visually to address what is being communicated. Nonetheless, studies in ancient dance have rarely taken clothing into consideration. Therefore, this publication gathers articles that give new perspectives and insights on ancient dances and their ancient textiles. Comprehension of ancient dance benefits from investigations undertaken through the lens of dress. And research on ancient dress is understood through its relation to body movement and performative rituals, thus reinforcing the progressive integration of an anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of ancient textiles. For the first time, the two-way transfer of knowledge between dance studies and costume studies is connected via an innovative approach. Among the issues that are specifically addressed are the movement design of dress for dance, its sensory experience, gender and identity, reenactment and reception. The chronological range of the publication is limited to the ancient world (3rd millennium BC to 5th century AD), and the geographical definition is meant to be broad in order to promote a comparative approach and cross-cultural dialogue, as well as discourse between fields and disciplines.
Author: Sophie Hüglin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-13
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 3030693880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPetrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the first steps to manifest, materialize or “petrify” the concept of “petrification” and turn it into a tool for analyzing material and social processes. The wide array of approaches to petrification as a process assembled here is more of a collection of possibilities than an attempt to establish a firm, law-generating theory. Divided into three parts, this volume’s twenty-plus authors explore petrification both as a theoretical concept and as a contextualized material and social process across geological, prehistoric and historic periods. Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials, preferences and choices of actors, the temporality of matter, being and becoming, the relationality between actors, matter, things and space (landscape, urban space, built space), and perceptions of the following generations dealing with the petrified matter, practices, and social relations. Contributors to this volume study specifically whether particular processes of petrification are confined to the material world or can be seen as mirroring, following, triggering, or contradicting changes in social life and general world views. Each of the authors explores – for a period or a specific feature – practices and changes that led to increased conformity and regularity. Some authors additionally focus on the methods and scrutinize them and their applications for their potential to create objects of investigation: things, people, periods, in order to raise awareness for these or to shape or “invent” categories. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, geologists, architectural historians, conservationists, and historians.
Author: Erin D. Darby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9004436774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.
Author: Lynn Meskell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1000181286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEgypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Is it because the ancient Egyptians fetishized material objects that we find their culture captivating today? And what exactly do Egyptian remains tell us about biography, embodiment, memory, materiality, and the self? Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt takes New Kingdom Egypt (1539-1070 BC) as its starting point and considers how excavated objects reveal the complex ways that ancient Egyptians experienced their material world. From life to death, the material world instantiated, reflected and influenced social life and existence for ancient Egyptians. Thus, in Meskells unique approach to the materiality and sensuousness of subjects and objects, we uncover the philosophical, spiritual and human meanings embedded in these cultural artefacts. Meskells book explores the fundamental existential questions that not only preoccupied ancient Egyptians, but continue to fascinate people today. What is the essence of persons and things? How might we understand the situated experiences of material life, the constitution of the object world and its shaping of human experience? How might objects successfully mediate between worlds? In the final analysis, Meskell moves forward through time and examines the consumption and appreciation of these Egyptian material objects in the contemporary world. Materiality is our physical engagement with the world, our medium for inserting ourselves into the fabric of that world and our way of constituting and shaping culture in an embodied and external sense. From that perspective it is very much the domain of anthropology and archaeology.Drawing on a wide range of objects, artefacts, and artwork, from Valley of the Kings through to Las Vegas, Meskell provides an elegant analysis of the aesthetics of ancient Egyptian material culture
Author: Jochem Kahl
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
Published: 2024-02-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3967693767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInhalt: Martina Aprile: A study on the procurement of offerings system for the funerary complex of Senwosret II at el-Lahun Alessio Delli Castelli: The Definition of Art and Sculpture Concerning Kai Widmaier's Bilderwelten Abraham I. Fernández Pichel, David Klotz: Fundamental Texts of Latopolitan Theology. The Bandeau Inscriptions from the Soubassements of the Ptolemaic Façade (Esna II, 16 and 30) Brendan Hainline: Markers of Non-Royal Ritual Utterances in the Pyramid Texts Sabine Herrmann: "Cette pyramide est bâtie en forme de pavillon". Zur Entdeckungsgeschichte der Pyramiden von Dahshur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit Jochem Kahl, Mohamed Abdelrahiem, Anna Arpaia, Andrea Kilian, Chiori Kitagawa, Jan Moje, Philipp Scharfenberger: The Asyut Project: Sixteenth Season of Fieldwork (2022) Florence Langermann: Seven Fragments of a Healing Statue from Heliopolis/Matareya Bieke Mahieu: The Identification and Sequence of the Hyksos Kings in Dynasty 15 Mostafa Hassan Nour, John M. Iskander, Sameh Hashem: The Stela of King Apries from El-Qantara Gharb. A Royal Journey to the Eastern Borders Anthony Spalinger: Chariot Wheels
Author: Paul T. Nicholson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-23
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780521452571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book describes current research into all aspects of craftwork in ancient Egypt.
Author: John Baines
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801497865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLectures given at a symposium held in 1987, sponsored by Fordham University.
Author: Jon Ewbank Manchip White
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1970-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780486225487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA panoramic view of life in the ancient Nile valley examines the activities, lifestyle, and culture of each stratum of Egyptian society from pharaoh to slave
