Author : Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107048087
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.
Author : Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 131646248X
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.
Author : Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781316465608
Explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (ca. 300 BCE-250 CE).
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 019927665X
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.
Author : Kerry Muhlestein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004416382
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.
Author : Dorian Borbonus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107031400
This 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 :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521806596
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.
Author : Glenys Davies
Publisher :
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521842735
Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
Author : Meredith Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107025575
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.
Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1994-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521461235
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.
