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almafu_9959691582602883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-46131-9
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1-316-46365-6
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1-316-46404-0
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1-316-46560-8
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1-316-46443-1
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1-316-46638-8
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1-107-25657-7
Content:
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 (ca.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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Death, Bilingualism, and Biography in the 'Eventide' of Egypt: The Tomb of Petosiris and Its Afterlife; 2 Egypt as Metaphor: Visual Bilingualism in the Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria; 3 Greek Myth as Metaphor in the Chora of Egypt; 4 Tradition and Innovation in the Tombs of the Egyptian Chora; 5 Bricolage and Greek-Collage in the Tombs of the Egyptian Chora; 6 Intersection and Interconnection in the Visualization of the Afterlife in Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt; Notes
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Bibliography of Modern Works CitedIndex; Egypt before Alexander; Previous Scholarship and How This Book Approaches Its Subject; Greeks and Egyptians; The Setting of the Tomb of Petosiris; The Tomb of Petosiris; Bilingualism in the Tomb of Petosiris; Visual Biography in the Tomb of Petosiris; The Afterlife of the Tomb of Petosiris; Ptolemaic-Period Tombs; Roman-Period Tombs; Greek Eschatology and the Mystery Cults; Greek Eschatology and Alexandria's Bilingual Response; Heroization and Alexandria's Bilingual Response; Imaging the Afterlife; Leontopolis; Tuna el-Gebel
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Greek Myth at Leontopolis and Tuna el-GebelTuna el-Gebel; The Egyptianizing Tombs at Tuna el-Gebel; The Siwa Oasis; Athribis; The Zodiac Ceilings; The 'Traditional' Tombs in the Graeco-Roman Chora; Dakhla Oasis; Akhmim (Panopolis); Greek Elements in the Egyptianizing Tombs of Akhmim and Dakhla; Social Positioning; The Image of the Patron; Daemonic Protection of the Tomb; The Efficacy of Afterlife Imagery in Graeco-Roman Egypt; The Chapel; The Pronaos; Hypogeum A; The Tombs at Moustapha Pasha; The Tombs of Pharos Island; The Saqiya Tomb; The Bilingual Tombs in the 'Nebengrab'
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The Main Tomb in the Great Catacomb at Kom el-ShoqafaThe Tomb from Tigrane Pasha Street; The Tombstones; The Tomb of Isidora; House Tombs with Painted Decoration at Tuna el-Gebel; The Myths and the Mysteries; House-Tomb 18; House-Tomb 20; House-Tomb 21; The Crocodile Tomb; The Tomb of Siamun; The Tomb of Psenosiris; The Zodiac Tomb or the Tomb of the Two Brothers; The Tomb of Petubastis; The Tomb of Petosiris; The Tombs at al-Salamuni; The Walls Devoted to Neshu; The Walls Devoted to Djedthothiufankh; The South Wall of the Chapel; The Pilasters of the South Wall and the South Pillars
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The Inner Walls of the PronaosThe Pronaos of the Main Tomb; The Burial Room; The Imagery of the Main Tomb Situated within Alexandrian Tomb Design; Tombs with Dionysiac Imagery; Tombs with Greek Myth Narratives; The Anteroom; The Burial Room; The East Side of the North Wall; The Pictorial Structure of the Tomb of Siamun; Room I; Room II; Bissing's Tomb from 1913; Salamuni Tomb 8; Kaplan's Tomb VI; Kaplan's Tomb VIII; Bissing's Tomb from 1897; The North Wall of the Pronaos; The East and West Walls of the Pronaos; The South Wall of the Pronaos; The Tomb of the Abduction of Persephone; The Tomb of the Trojan Horse
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-62666-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-04808-7
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256576
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