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Item Myths & Legends of Ancient Egypt(Allen Lane, 2010) Tyldesley, JoyceItem Mastabas et hypogées d'Ancien Empire. Le problème de la datation(Connaissance de l'Égypte Ancienne, 1989) Cherpion, NadineL'énorme documentation figurée (reliefs ou peintures) qui couvre les parois des mastabas et des hypogées, de la IIIe à la VIe dynastie, était globalement située dans l'Ancien Empire; toutes les datations proposées jusque là étaient vagues et peu fondées.Nadine Cherpion est parvenue à établir une méthode de datation précise, parfois règne par règne, basée sur l'évolution d'une soixantaine de critères figurés, en dehors de toute subjectivitéItem Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) Taylor Westerfeld, JenniferEgyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological endsItem Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul(Princeton University Press, 2019) Rüstem, ÜnverA new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the WestItem Handbook of ancient Nubia(De Gruyter, 2019) Raue, DietrichNumerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of the Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights into all areas of the local history of this civilization, and paving the way for Ancient Nubia to become a research focus in contemporary northeast African archaeologies. Beginning with the findings of the Paleolithic Age, the way to the juxtaposition of pastoral societies and larger cultural spaces in the floodplain is presented. From Bronze Age cultures, the arc is stretched to the kingdoms of Napata and Meroe to the Christian kingdoms and the Islamic Early Modern period. The wide-ranging contributions to this handbook impart the current state of international research and illuminate the present understanding of the cultural history of this fascination region, including its interconnections to the natural worldItem New Approaches in Demotic Studies : Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies(De Gruyter, 2019) International Conference for Demotic Studies; Naether, FranziskaItem Sacred Landscape of Thebes during the Reign of Hatshepsut : Royal Construction Projects Volume 2, Topographical bibliography of the West Bank(IKŚiO PAN, 2016) Iwaszczuk, Jadwiga; Laskowska-Kusztal, EwaItem Statues in context : production, meaning and (re)uses(Peeters, 2019) Masson-Berghoff, AuréliaMoving 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?Item The construction of value in the ancient world(Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012) Papadopoulos, John K.; Urton, GaryScholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over anotherItem The Fayoum Survey Project : The Themistou Meris: Volume B: The Ceramological Survey(Peeters Publishers, 2019-05) Bailey, D.M.This volume accompanies Volume A which presents the archaeological survey of the sites of the Themistou Meris (north-western Fayoum), by giving a thorough introduction to the pottery found during the survey. The great doyen of the pottery of the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, the late Donald M. Bailey, did not live to see his volume in print. His legacy is an exemplary study of forms and materials of the different kinds of ceramic vessels, from amphorae to cooking-pots and from coarse kitchen ware to fine table ware. The book is rounded up by two short essays, which add up-to-date information on the pottery found in the Themistou Meris as well as in other districts of the Fayoum.