Ancient perspectives on Egypt
by Matthews, Roger,, Dr Roemer, Cornelia
"Ancient Perspectives on Egypt includes both archaeological and documented evidence, which ranges from the earliest writing attested in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium B.C., to graffiti from Abydos that demonstrate pilgrimages from all over the Mediterranean world, to the views of Roman poets on the nature of Egypt."--Jacket.
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- Full title :Ancient perspectives on Egypt / edited by Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer.
Summary
"Ancient Perspectives on Egypt includes both archaeological and documented evidence, which ranges from the earliest writing attested in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium B.C., to graffiti from Abydos that demonstrate pilgrimages from all over the Mediterranean world, to the views of Roman poets on the nature of Egypt."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cavendish Pub, UCL Press, Institute of Archaeology
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
Notes
Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 253 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1844720020, 9781844720026
- oclc:ocm51993947
- LC Classification:DT83
- Dewey Decimal:932
Table of Contents
1. The worlds of ancient Egypt -- aspects, sources, interactions / Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer -- 2. South Levantine encounters with ancient Egypt at the beginning of the third millennium / Eliot Braun -- 3. Egyptian stone vessels and the politics of exchange (2617-1070 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- 4. Reconstructing the role of Egyptian culture in the value regimes of the bronze age Aegean: stone vessels and their social contexts / Andrew Bevan -- 5. Love and war in the late bronze age: Egypt and Hatti / David Warburton -- 6. Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late bronze and iron ages / David Warburton and Roger Matthews -- 7. Finding the Egyptian in early Greek art / Jeremy Tanner -- 8. Upside down and back to front: Herodotus and the Greek encounter with Egypt / Thomas Harrison -- 9. Encounters with ancient Egypt: the Hellenistic Greek experience / Csaba A. Lad́a -- 10. Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt: new perspectives on graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos / Ian Rutherford -- 11. Carry-on at Canopus: the Nilotic mosaic from Palestrina and Roman attitudes to Egypt / Susan Walker -- 12. Roman poets on Egypt / Herwig Maehler.
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