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1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Egyptian afterlives in the modern world. Egyptian mummies at the Brooklyn Museum : changing attitudes and perceptions / Lisa Bruno -- Survival of ancient Egypt in modern culture : a never-ending story / Edmund Meltzer -- Ancient (Egyptian) language of the Children of Dune / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- Montuemhat Crypt in the Mut Temple : a new look / Richard Fazzini and Mary McKercher -- Egyptian afterlives in antiquity. A visit with the Egyptian statues of the Alexandria Serapeum and Iseum Campense / Paul Stanwick -- Various lives of statues in the City of the Sun / Simon Connor -- Egyptian stone vessels abroad : reuse and reconfiguration / Peter Lacovara -- Egyptian afterlives in Pharaonic Egypt. A late Old Kingdom stela in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (ROM 972.289) / Ronald Leprohon -- A case study of multile coffin reuse in the National Mueum of Scotland, Edinburgh / Kathlyn Cooney -- A new version of Book of the Dead 30B : Art Institute Chicago heart scarab 1894.1359 / Emily Teeter -- Ba-bringer and other fun(erary) texts : pBrooklyn Museum 37.1783E / Yekaterina Barbash. |
| Summary |
"Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and socio-political circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Egypt. |
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Antiquities. |
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HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt. |
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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Barbash, Yekaterina, editor.
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Cooney, Kara, editor.
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Zurek-Doule, Kathy, writer of preface.
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Bleiberg, Edward, 1951- honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Afterlives of Egyptian history. Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021 9781617979927 (DLC) 2020029086 |
| ISBN |
9781649030580 electronic book |
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1649030584 electronic book |
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9781649030573 electronic book |
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1649030576 electronic book |
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9781617979927 hardcover |
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