The image of the ordered world in ancient Nubian art : the construction of the Kushite mind, 800 BC-300 AD /

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Main Author: Torok, Laszlo, 1941-2020 (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2002.

Series: Probleme der Agyptologie, 18.
PdA ; 18.

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Call Number: DT57 .P92 v.18

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245 1 4 |a The image of the ordered world in ancient Nubian art :  |b the construction of the Kushite mind, 800 BC-300 AD /  |c by Laszlo Torok. 
264 1 |a Leiden ;  |a Boston :  |b Brill,  |c c2002. 
300 |a xix, 525 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
490 0 |a Probleme der Agyptologie,   |x 0169-9601 ;  |v 18. 
490 0 |a PdA ;   |v 18. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a 1. The sacred landscape of Nubia -- 1.1. Inhabited space, sacred landscape, order in the world -- 1.2. The Nile and Nubia's sacred landscape in the New Kingdom and during the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty -- 1.3. Royal progress and sacred landscape -- 1.4. Urban landscapes in Kush and their theology -- 1.5. The theology of the relationship between Napata and Sanam -- 2. Iconography and order in the world -- 2.1. The grammar of the Kushite temple -- 2.2. The revival of New Kingdom cults in Kush -- 2.3. Temple B 300 of Mut and Hathor-Tefnut at Napata -- 2.4. The principal Amun temple (Temple T) at Kawa -- 2.5. The temple of Amun, Bull of Bow-land at Sanam -- 2.6. Temples A and B at Kawa: building history -- 2.7. An early post-Twenty-Fifth Dynasty sanctuary: temple B 700 at Napata -- 2.8. The Function of the Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra and the iconography of the front colonnade of Hall 101 -- 2.9. The temple of Apedemak at Musawwarat es Sufra -- 2.10. Temple II A at Musawwarat es Sufra -- 2.11. The reliefs of the great Amun temple of Napata in the Meroitic period -- 2.12. Temple F at Naqa -- 2.13. Temple M 250 at Meroe City -- 2.14. The temple of Apedemak at Naqa -- 2.15. The temple of Amun at Naqa -- 2.16. The Court of the Amun temple at Amara -- 3. Temple and society: historical memory and identity -- 3.1. From a grammar of the temple to a grammar of the relationship between temple and society -- 3.2. The temples of Kawa and Sanam -- 3.3. The great Amun temple of Napata in the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and Napatan periods -- 3.4. The great Amun temple of Napata in the Meroitic period -- 3.5. The late Amun temple of Meroe City -- 4. Myth of the state, literacy, and literature -- 4.1. Components and uses of the Kushite royal text -- 4.2. Structure and form, text and recitation -- 4.3. Functions of literacy in the Meroitic period. 
650 0 |a Sacred space  |z Nubia. 
650 0 |a Temples  |z Nubia. 
651 0 |a Nubia  |x Civilization. 
651 0 |a Nubia  |x Antiquities. 
901 |a reviewed 
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