This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar
materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite
culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the
natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual
ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively
ephemeral activities under investigation were centrally important
to the actors. The first and largest study treats human
organization of the landscape and its use to create and transmit
elite meanings, especially through pictorial and encyclopaedic
forms, and to mobilize emotional values. Next, a treatment of the
planning of third millennium settlements on the floodplain argues
that Egypt offers a partly rural perspective that provides an
alternative to the urban focus of many early civilizations but has
parallels in elite culture in much of the world. The third study
discusses how a single year's events were orchestrated to culminate
in a celebratory hunt in which the king, his court, and high
officials participated. The concluding chapter presents an initial
synthesis of Egyptian treatments of elite experience, drawing upon
additional evidence in particular from literary texts and attitudes
to travel. Throughout the book, aesthetics and the cultivation of
pleasure and delight are emphasized as essential to ancient elite
life.
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