The Painted Tomb-chapel of NebamunBritish Museum Press, 2008 - 152 páginas "The eleven sections of wall-painting from Nebamun's lost tomb-chapel from c. 1350 B.C. are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum's treasures." "The paintings decorated the walls of an Egyptian official's tomb-chapel, displaying his status and activities in this life and the next. The accountant Nebamun, eternally youthful and vigorous, is shown hunting in the marshes and overseeing his servants and animals on the estates he managed. The paintings offer us fascinating glimpses of the world of ancient Egypt as the governing class wished it to be seen. Ancient visitors would bring offerings and prayers to Nebamun in this colourful chapel, and the paintings were intended to be seen and appreciated by them. Their beauty and vitality are admirably captured in the new detailed photography which has been taken especially for this book." "The process of conservation and analysis in the Museum's specialist laboratories has revealed new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt, and a detailed study has resulted in new reconstructions of the paintings. This work, together with research in the Museum's archives, is helping to solve the problem of the tomb-chapel's location near modern Luxor, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed." "Richard Parkinson discusses the history of the paintings from ancient to modern times. He describes each painting fully, with translations of the hieroglyphic texts, and reconstructs the full scenes from which each fragment comes. Discussions of the other known fragments from the tomb-chapel (now in Berlin, Avignon and Lyon) are included. Every painting is illustrated in colour with numerous close-up details, doing full justice to these artists who have been described as 'antiquity's equivalent of Michelangelo'."--BOOK JACKET. |
Índice
PREFACE | 7 |
The banquet | 54 |
Viewing the produce of the estates | 63 |
Página de créditos | |
Otras 2 secciones no se muestran.
Términos y frases comunes
18th Dynasty agricultural scene Amenhotep Amenhotep III Amun ancient Egypt animals artist banquet scene baskets Benzion fragments birds black hieroglyphs blue border bottom register bouquet British Museum fragment cattle chairs chapel Claire Thorne colour columns cream d'Athanasi damage decorated Deir el-Bahri Deir el-Medina Dra Abu el-Naga edge Egypt face figure of Nebamun floral front funerary Garis Davies geese grain Granary green guests Gurna hair Hatshepsut head height Henry Salt holds impasto Kampp kilt legs lost lotus buds lotus flowers Luxor Manniche mud-plaster musicians Nakht Nebamun's tomb-chapel necropolis offering scene outer chamber papyrus pattern perhaps pigment pile placed plaster probably R.B. Parkinson register-line right hand scene shows Scribe and Grain-accountant second register sitting sketched slightly stands suggest surviving sycomore fig temple texture Theban necropolis Theban Tomb Thebes tomb-chapel tomb-chapel of Menna tomb-owner top register traces tree underdrawing Valley visible wall wears wife yellow