Books : Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000 BC-AD 1150 (Fitzwilliam Museum Publications)
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 736.5093207442659
EAN num: 9780521842907
ISBN number: 0521842905
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 216
Printing Date: April 10, 2005
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
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Studio: Cambridge University Press
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The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae (many funerary) deriving from the Nile Valley, now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The stelae are written in various scripts - Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic - and cover a date-range of over 4000 years. Few museums have published their complete holdings of such material, and the carefully described and translated information from these stelae throws a flood of light on the history, religion, funerary customs, art and iconography, daily life and administrative systems of ancient Egypt and Nubia. Each entry has a photograph of the stela as well as a meticulous line-drawing which enables the texts and iconography to be understood and interpreted. Full museological details such as material, precise measurements, provenance (where known), mode of acquisition and dating are provided. The volume will interest specialists as well as a wider public concerned with Egyptology.
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