Research Catalog

Title

Old Kingdom, new perspectives : Egyptian art and archaeology 2750-2150 BC / edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick.

Author

Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference (2009 : Cambridge, England)

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : Available direct from the David Brown Book Co., c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Strudwick, Nigel.
• Strudwick, Helen.

Description

319 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Subjects

• Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Congresses
• Egypt > Antiquities > Congresses
• Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, held May 20-23, 2009 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick -- Recent work in the tomb of Nebkauhor at Saqqara / Abdou el-Kerety -- A new Old Kingdom rock-cut tomb from Abusir and its Abusir-Saqqara context / Miroslav Bárta -- Mastaba core structure: new data from Fourth Dynasty elite tombs at Abu Rawash / Michel Baud and Eric Guerrier -- The art of Egyptian hieroglyphs as seen by the Akhmim painters / V.G. Callender -- Two cemeteries for one provincial capital? Deir el-Bersha and el-Sheikh Said in the fifteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the Old Kingdom / Marleen De Meyer -- Blocks from the Unas causeway recorded in Cerný's notebooks at the Griffith Institute, Oxford / Andrés Diego Espinel -- A spatial metaphor for chronology in the secondary cemeteries at Giza / May Farouk -- The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafre at Giza / Laurel Flentye -- Reading the Menkaure triads: part II (multi-directionality) / Florence Dunn Friedman -- The death of the democratisation of the afterlife / Harold M. Hays -- A new specific tomb type in Abusir? / Jaromír Krejcí -- An afterworld for Netjerykhet / Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz -- Re-examining the Khentkaues town / Mark Lehner, Daniel Jones, Lisa Yeomans, Hanan Mahmoud and Kasia Olchowska -- Searching for an undistorted template (digital epigraphy in action) / Jolana Malatkova -- The "reserve heads": some remarks on their function and meaning / Massimiliano Nuzzolo -- The evidence of images: art and working techniques in the mastaba of Mereruka / Gabriele Pieke -- The concept of XPRR in Old Kingdom religious texts / Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska -- Twisted kilts: variations in aspective representation in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels / Ann Macy Roth -- And where are the viscera? reassessing the function of Old Kingdom canopic recesses and pits / Teodozja I. Rzeuska -- Fixed rules or personal choice? on the composition and arrangement of daily life scenes in Old Kingdom elite tombs / Nico Staring -- Village, town and barracks: a Fourth Dynasty settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza / Ana Tavares -- An Old Kingdom bakery at Sheikh Said south: preliminary report on the pottery corpus / Stefanie Vereecken -- Why was the Fifth Dynasty cemetery founded at Abusir? / Miroslav Verner and Vladimír Bruna -- The economic connection between the royal cult in the pyramid temples and the sun temples in Abusir / Hana Vymazalová -- The Ancient Egypt Research Associates settlement site at Giza: the Old Kingdom ceramic distribution / Anna Wodzinska -- Zss wad scenes of the Old Kingdom revisited / Alexandra Woods.

Call Number

JFF 12-783

ISBN

• 9781842174302
• 1842174304

LCCN

2011034091

OCLC

YBP 2011034091

Conference

Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference (2009 : Cambridge, England)

Title

Old Kingdom, new perspectives : Egyptian art and archaeology 2750-2150 BC / edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick.

Imprint

Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : Available direct from the David Brown Book Co., c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Strudwick, Nigel.

Strudwick, Helen.

Research Call Number

JFF 12-783