Dakhleh Oasis and the western desert of egypt under the ptolemies /
: This book is a modified version of a PhD thesis completed in 2014 in the centre for Archaeology and Ancient History (now the Centre for Ancient Cultures) at Monash University. : 483 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm. : 9781785701351
Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt /
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"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had been subjected to critical analysis or interpretation, and most had largely been ignored. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances, as it sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife"--
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xvii, 268 pages, 16unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index. :
1107256577
9781107048089 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781107626669 (paperback : alkaline paper)