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1 online resource 83 b&w |
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Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Preface -- Bibliography of Edward L. Bleiberg -- Exhibitions Organized by Edward L. Bleiberg -- Introduction -- Section 1. Egyptian Afterlives in the Modern World -- 1. Egyptian Mummies at the Brooklyn Museum: Changing Attitudes and Perceptions -- 2. The Survival of Ancient Egypt in Modern Culture: A Never-ending Story -- 3. The Ancient (Egyptian) Language of the Children of Dune -- 4. The Montuemhat Crypt in the Mut Temple: A New Look |
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Section 2. Egyptian Afterlives in Antiquity -- 5. A Visit with the Egyptian Statues of the Alexandria Serapeum and Iseum Campense -- 6. The Various Lives of Statues in the City of the Sun -- 7. Egyptian Stone Vessels Abroad: Reuse and Reconfiguration -- Section 3. Egyptian Afterlives in Pharaonic Egypt -- 8. A Late Old Kingdom Stela in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (ROM 971.289) -- 9. A Case Study of Multiple Coffin Reuse in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh -- 10. A New Version of Book of the Dead 30B: Art Institute Chicago Heart Scarab 1894.1359 |
| Summary |
"Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and socio-political circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times"-- Provided by publisher |
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Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263
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| Subject |
Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Barbash, Yekaterina, editor
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Cooney, Kathlyn M., editor
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| ISBN |
9781649030573 |
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1649030576 |
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