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Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters. First, encounters
which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands,
and second, those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary
lands. Some of the actual foreign lands are mysterious, in that we
know of them only through Egyptian sources, both written and
pictorial, and the actual locations of such lands remain unknown.
These encounters led to reciprocal influences of varying intensity.
The Egyptians also created imaginary lands (pseudo-geographic
entities with distinctive inhabitants and cultures) in order to
meet religious, intellectual and emotional needs. Scholars
disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the locations and cultures of
some important but geographically disputed actual lands. As for
imaginary lands, they continually need to be re-explored as our
understanding of Egyptian religion and literature deepens.
Mysterious Lands provides a clear account of this subject and will
be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested
public.
The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman
Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us
from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by
Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his excavations
in the Egyptian Fayum during the 1880s and have rested at
University College London for over 100 years. Now, the Petrie
Museum is bringing this corpus of paintings to the public in a
stunning catalog. Living Images is a beautiful and authoritative
presentation of the restored collection that will be an essential
reference for scholars and a fascinating read for general
audiences. Central to the volume is a complete catalog of the mummy
portraits uncovered by Petrie, including full color illustrations
and descriptions of technical and stylistic features and
iconographic characteristics. To add to the value of the volume,
articles describe the process of finding the mummies, explain the
place of funerary assemblages in the history of Egyptian burial
customs, offer an introduction to Egyptian portrait painting, and
explain the conservation issues presented by the coffins. Petrie's
own reflections on his finds are also included. The volume is
dedicated to the memory of Egyptologist Barbara Adams and
co-sponsored by the Petrie Museum.
The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman
Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us
from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by
Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his excavations
in the Egyptian Fayum during the 1880s and have rested at
University College London for over 100 years. Now, the Petrie
Museum is bringing this corpus of paintings to the public in a
stunning catalog. Living Images is a beautiful and authoritative
presentation of the restored collection that will be an essential
reference for scholars and a fascinating read for general
audiences. Central to the volume is a complete catalog of the mummy
portraits uncovered by Petrie, including full color illustrations
and descriptions of technical and stylistic features and
iconographic characteristics. To add to the value of the volume,
articles describe the process of finding the mummies, explain the
place of funerary assemblages in the history of Egyptian burial
customs, offer an introduction to Egyptian portrait painting, and
explain the conservation issues presented by the coffins. Petrie's
own reflections on his finds are also included. The volume is
dedicated to the memory of Egyptologist Barbara Adams and
co-sponsored by the Petrie Museum.
Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters. First, encounters
which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands,
and second, those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary
lands. Some of the actual foreign lands are mysterious, in that we
know of them only through Egyptian sources, both written and
pictorial, and the actual locations of such lands remain unknown.
These encounters led to reciprocal influences of varying intensity.
The Egyptians also created imaginary lands (pseudo-geographic
entities with distinctive inhabitants and cultures) in order to
meet religious, intellectual and emotional needs. Scholars
disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the locations and cultures of
some important but geographically disputed actual lands. As for
imaginary lands, they continually need to be re-explored as our
understanding of Egyptian religion and literature deepens.
Mysterious Lands provides a clear account of this subject and will
be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested
public.
This volume completes the presentation of all University College
London's Lahun papyri. Over half of the great mass of papyrus
fragments retrieved by Petrie from the Middle-Kingdom town-site
near al-Lahun (Fayum region) comprises administrative records and
the authors have divided the analyses into items for which
Petrie-Griffith lot numbers are known, items for which
Petrie-Griffith lot numbers are not known, and items of less
determinate content not included in other series. The work includes
a CD showing colour photographs of the original material.
This volume presents transcriptions with transliterations and
translations of five broad types of papyri discovered during
Petrie's excavations of Lahun. Digital photographs of the papyri
are presented on the enclosed CD.
The University College London Lahun (Middle Kingdom) papyri
constitute one of the most remarkable harvests of papyri of any
age. This volume communicates the content of the surviving letters
and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in an
accessible and affordable format. The letters and fragments are
from original letters: model letters, letter copies, and reports
are reserved for future publications. The volume is intended not
only for Egyptological researchers, but also for learners in higher
and further education. This mass of writing calls for a more
nuanced appreciation of the roles of writing and reading, and the
social reach of the written culture across the different classes,
ages, genders inhabiting this architecture and landscape. (The
reader will find three means of access to the original content:
Printed pages with transcriptions, transliterations, and
translations: A printed index: The entire collection of papyri on
an accompanying CD.)
Despite major movements for change, in practice archaeologists
still pursue the past to the exclusion of the present inhabitants
of archaeological landscapes. Archaeological archives hold a key to
the formation of archaeology as a separate study, but they may be
overlooked in current debates on ethics in archaeology and
anthropology. This study focuses on the great archive that records
the work of Flinders Petrie in Egypt, first in 1880-1882 under a
nationalist government, and then during the English military
occupation that lasted from 1882 until after his death in 1942. The
archive brings to life the main Egyptian supervisors who enabled
Petrie to function as an archaeologist, while payroll lists record
the names of hundreds more men and children on the full labour
force. None of these Egyptians have received recognition as an
archaeologist in history-writing, foreign or Egyptian. This
archival ground offers a new open resource to those within Egypt
and elsewhere opposed to the neo-colonial regime of the
disciplines.
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of
ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of
production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and
ethnographic research. During the past decades, the "imaginative"
figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from
"workers" to "artisans" and, most recently, to "artists". In a
search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material
production in past societies, and moving away from a series of
modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms
of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age
(2000-1550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian
craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to
trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in
material production. The studies in the volume address the
mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the
circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the
people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions
and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced.
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of
ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of
production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and
ethnographic research. During the past decades, the "imaginative"
figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from
"workers" to "artisans" and, most recently, to "artists". In a
search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material
production in past societies, and moving away from a series of
modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms
of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age
(2000-1550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian
craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to
trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in
material production. The studies in the volume address the
mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the
circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the
people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions
and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced.
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