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This volume is the first of a series on the ceramics from the Egypt
Exploration Society's excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara. The
desert edge overlooking the Nile Valley was intensively used for
two and a half millenia before its selection as the site of the
mainly Ptolemaic temple. Mastaba tombs, pyramids and their
associated temples, densely packed shaft tombs and a Late Dynastic
cemetery came and went, many leaving evidence of former
magnificence, while invisible beneath shifting sands lies
fragmentary testimony to the kings, queens, nobles and commoners
buried here and the priestly communities who ministered to their
needs in the afterlife. Two volumes have described the surviving
structures and the large and small objects found and analysed in
the area's complex stratigraphy; the present volume adds the
evidence of that most prolific of ancient artefacts, the pottery,
for the whole period from the first use of the area until the
eighth century BC. Published and some unpublished parallels from
Saqqara itself, from the city of Memphis, where most of those
buried here lived and died, and from further afield, place each
type in its geographical and chronological context to trace the
evolution of the ceramic repertoire in the Saqqara/ Memphis area
through the major periods of ancient Egyptian history.
This volume continues the ceramic history of the Saqqara Anubis
temple, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1977 to
1979. Volume IV covers the Late Dynastic Period. From at least the
mid- 6th century BC onwards, burials appear to have been made in
the earlier shaft tombs as well as in a new cemetery in the sand. A
temple to Anubis, god of the dead, was commenced at the same time,
abandoned during the Persian Period but restarted around 400 BC.
The ceramics include bowls used by the embalmers as well as
offering vessels and the repertoire of the fourth century builders.
This volume is a study of ceramic change in a stratified settlement
at Kom Rabia, Memphis, during the New Kingdom. Ceramic chronology
of this period has traditionally relied on pottery associated with
dated individuals, usually from burials. In contrast, this study
presents quantified evidence from a random sample taken from all
contexts. A corpus has been made up for each level or phase.
Appendices show the distribution of pottery within single contexts
and of types within the sequence. Dating, fabric, surface
treatments and shape are described in detail and there is a
critical appraisal of the methodology used.
Understanding Catastrophe examines the immense and varied impact
that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on
earth. Opening with a remarkable account of supernovae and the
nature of stellar catastrophe, it then examines the way evolution
itself can proceed through genetic jumps of catastrophic
proportions. The primal forces of the earth, manifested in such
natural catastrophes as earthquakes and cyclones, and the
devastating impact these can have even today on human populations
across the world receive extended scrutiny as does the power of
famine historically in determining the future of humankind. To
conclude, a fascinating final chapter on changing medical and
social attitudes to epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis
offers--in the age of AIDS particularly--some unsettling insights
into our fundamental incapacity when confronted by major threats to
life and health. The book originates in the fifth annual series of
Darwin College Lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1990 under the
title 'Catastrophes'. The contributors include Robert Kirshner on
Stellar Catastrophe; Walter Alvarez on the Extinction of the
Dinosaurs; Martin Rudwick on Darwin and Catastrophe; Christopher
Zeeman on Catastrophe and Evolution; Claudio Vita Finzi on
Earthquakes; Nicholas Cook on Storms and Cyclones; Peter Garnsey on
Famine and History; and Roy Porter on Changing Attitudes to
Disease.
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Egyptian Art (Paperback, New)
Eleni Vassilika; Contributions by Janine Bourriau; Photographs by Bridget Taylor, Andrew Morris
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This lavishly illustrated book brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works of art of outstanding quality and interest, ranging from large sculptures to small decorative objects. The introduction and full descriptions explain their significance, style, material, and mode of manufacture within the framework of the life and religious beliefs of the royal and private owners for whom they were made. Readers will find much of interest among the numerous objects, all of which are shown in color and many published here for the first time.
In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social
context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion
has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to
relate the results of the specialist investigator to broad
historical questions concerning the nature and development of
ancient societies. The papers presented here address a wider
context: geographically, with the inclusion of the Aegean and
thematically, with papers on natural products and raw materials.
The time frame remains the same in covering the Late Bronze Age/New
Kingdom. The majority of the papers draw on Egyptian evidence, and
illustrate a multiplicity of approaches to the problems set by
ancient technologies: modelling, methodology of art history and
archaeology applied to a problematic group of artefacts,
integration of archaeological and textual sources, and the
application of the results of scientific analysis to illuminate
ancient technology.
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