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Hundred Gated Thebes
Author | : P.W. Pestman,Vleeming |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004427815 |
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The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. This material constitute one end of a chain which links the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses on the one hand with their tombs and their tomb inventories on the other, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers. The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid. It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloqium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloqium are published here.
Hundred gated Thebes
Author | : S. P. Vleeming |
Publsiher | : Brill Academic Pub |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004103848 |
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"The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile and the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. This material constitutes one end of a chain which links on the one hand the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses with on the other hand their tombs and their tomb inventories, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers. The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid." "It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloquium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloquium are published here."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Traveling Through Egypt
Author | : Deborah Manley,Sahar Abdel-Hakim |
Publsiher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9774161696 |
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A new paperback edition of a best-selling anthology.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt
Author | : Christina Riggs |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2012-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199571451 |
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This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research.
The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt
Author | : Christina Riggs |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191534870 |
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This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt.
Thebes of the Hundred Gates
Author | : Robert Silverberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1612421067 |
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Edward Davis, a rookie of the Time Service, has already made several successful jumps to the past. Now he is given his most important mission.Two members of the Service have disappeared in ancient Egypt and Edward Davis's assignment is to locate and rescue them.But is he ready for all that Egypt has to offer and for the surprising truths he discovers as he explores this ancient land of myths and mysteries--truths that jeopardize his own mission and return back to the future?
Oedipus and Akhnaton
Author | : Immanuel Velikovsky |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1906833583 |
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Is it conceivable that the Oedipus saga was not a creation of human fancy but is based on historical happenings? This question is posed by Immanuel Velikovsky in the present book. The most popular pharaonic family of all - Akhnaton with his wife Nefertiti and his son Tutankhamen - are exposed as the real protagonists of the Oedipus saga.
Thebes in Egypt
Author | : Nigel Strudwick,Helen Strudwick |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0801436931 |
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"After reviewing the topography of the site, the Strudwicks recount the history of Thebes from the city's rise in the late Old Kingdom to the peak of its power in the New Kingdom and to its gradual decline in the Graeco-Roman period.