Old Kingdom, new perspectives : Egyptian art and archaeology 2750 - 2150 BC

Körperschaft: Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference Cambridge, England)
Weitere Verfasser: Strudwick, Nigel
Strudwick, Helen
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2011.
Umfang/Format: 319 p. : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Egypt
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Barta
  • 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 Cerny's notebooks at the Griffith Institute, Oxford / Andres 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? / Jaromir Krejci
  • 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 Vladimir Bruna
  • The economic connection between the royal cult in the pyramid temples and the sun temples in Abusir / Hana Vymazalova
  • 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.