Markus Pasha Simaika : founder of the Coptic Museum ; his life and times /
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"This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Youssef Marcus Simaika, to whom I owe so much". :
192 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (page 192). :
9771799738 (paperback)
9789771799733 (paperback)
An artist in Abydos : The life and letters of Myrtle Broome /
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An Artist in Abydos is the first book to recognize Broome?s great contribution to the work done during this golden age of excavation in Upper Egypt. In this remarkable account, Lee Young tells the story of Myrtle Broome, who died in 1978, largely through her letters. An only child and a prolific writer, Broome wanted her parents to know every facet of her life in Egypt. Her frequent letters to them vividly capture life in the villages, the traditions of the local people, the work of artisans, such as weaving and pot-making, and festivals, ceremonies, and music. In fascinating detail, the letters also depict Broome?s living conditions providing us with a personal account of what it was like to be an English, working woman living abroad in Egypt in the 1930s.0Myrtle Florence Broome was born in 1888 to artistically inclined middle-class parents in the district of Holborn in London. Between 1911 and 1913, she studied at University College London under the legendary Sir William Petrie. In 1927 she was invited to join the excavations at Qau el-Kebir as an artist for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, later traveling, in 1929, to work at the now famous Seti Temple in Abydos for the Egypt Exploration Society. Broome spent eight seasons there, copying the painted scenes in the Temple. Regarded then as one of the greatest copyists working in Egypt, she left invaluable renditions of some of ancient Egypt?s most beautiful monuments.
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x, 231 pages, 8 color pages of plates : illustration (some color) ; 24 cm. :
9789774169922
9774169921
Statues in context : production, meaning and (re)uses
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Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried?0New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re- )uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range? from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity? and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples and houses, and the later biographies of statues?