Architecture for the dead : Cairo's medieval necropolis /
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"In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest - but elaborately decorated - wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead."--BOOK JACKET.
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Translation of : Cité des morts
"An Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Edition."
"First published in French in 2001 under the title Le Cité des Morts" -- Title page verso. :
302 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and indexes. :
9774160746
Graeco-Roman funerary stelae from Upper Egypt /
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Includes texts in Egyptian with English translations.
"The excavation of Professor John Garstang in 1907 at Abydos provided a very large number of stelae which form the basis of this study" -- Page xvii.
"Catalogue of Graeco-Roman stelae from Upper Egypt" : pages 17-98.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Liverpool, 1983. :
xviii, 153 pages, [84] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index. :
0853231257
Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods /
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In 'Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram. The deceased were presented as eternally young heroes, oblivious of old age and death, as stars shining with an eternal brightness in heavens or in Ether, or as the ones chosen by the gods, abducted by them to their home in the heavens or married to them in the other world (following the examples of Ganymede, Adonis, Hylas and Persephone). The author demonstrates that, for all their diversity, the common feature of these verse inscriptions was the praise of beauty of the dead.
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1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004233201 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A monumental Hellenistic funerary ensemble at Callatis on the Western Black Sea.
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Documaci Tumulus, a spectacular early Hellenistic funerary monument recently excavated on the western Black Sea coast, was built at the threshold of the 4th to 3rd centuries BC in the cemetery of the Greek City of Callatis. Excavations offer a glimpse into a complex and interconnected world of Hellenistic architects and artists.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694376 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Roman funerary monuments of south-western Pannonia in their material, social, and religious context /
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This text examines around 200 funerary monuments and fragments (stelai, sarcophagi, ash-chests, tituli, altars, medallions and buildings) from three Roman cities in the south-west part of the Roman province of Pannonia in the territory of north-west Croatia: colonia Siscia (Sisak) and municipia Andautonia (Scitarjevo) and Aquae Balissae (Daruvar).
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690224 (ebook) :