Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman EgyptCambridge University Press, 2016 - 268 páginas 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 (c.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. |
Índice
Death Bilingualism and Biography in | 5 |
Visual Bilingualism | 50 |
Greek Myth as Metaphor in the Chora | 87 |
Tradition and Innovation in the Tombs | 109 |
Bricolage and GreekCollage in the Tombs | 157 |
Intersection and Interconnection in | 196 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography of Modern Works Cited | 239 |
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Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt Marjorie Susan Venit Vista previa restringida - 2015 |
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afterlife Agathodaimons Akhmim Alexandria Alexandrian tombs Anfushy anteroom Anubis Athribis Author Photo ba-bird Bernand Bissing burial chamber burial room Cairo ceiling century bce chapel Chapter Cherpion chora crown daemons Dakhla Oasis deceased decoration deities depicted east wall Egyptian el-Shoqafa entrance eschatological Fakhry female Figured Frieze frieze funerary Gabra garment German Archaeological Institute Graeco-Roman Egypt Greek Hermopolis Magna holds Horus House-tomb 21 identifies imagery inscription Isis kline Kuhlmann Lefebvre Lembke LIMC loculi Lower Register Ma’at Main Tomb male Moustapha Pasha mummiform mummy narrative Nekhbet Nephthys Neshu Neugebauer and Parker north wall Oedipus Osing Osiris painted Perdrizet 1941 Persephone preserved Pronaos Psenosiris Ptolemaic R. H. Wilkinson relief Roman Roman-period S¯aqiya Tomb sarcophagus scene Siwa Oasis south wall sphinxes stands style temple Thoth Tomb of Petosiris Tomb of Petubastis tomb of Siamun tomb’s Tuna el-Gebel upper register Venit visual Wadjet wears west wall zodiac