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Sudan : ancient kingdoms of the Nile / editorial direction, Dietrich Wildung ; translation from the German by Peter der Manuelian, translation from the French by Kathleen Guillaume.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT154.8 .S9413 1997
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Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT154.8 .S9413 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Sudan, antike Konigreiche am Nil. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization.
- Exhibitions.
- Antiquities.
- Sudan--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
- Sudan.
- Sudan--Civilization--Exhibitions.
- Art--Sudan--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris ; New York : Flammarion, 1997.
- Summary:
- In association with the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, and the Kunsthalle, Munich. The culture of the ancient Sudanese and Nubian Kingdoms is chronicled in this groundbreaking exhibition catalog.
- Contents:
- Preface / Hassan Hussein Idris
- More than a century of archaeological research in the Sudan / Salah Mohamed Ahmed
- The Prehistory of the Sudan (Fifth-Fourth Millennia B.C.). 6,000 years ago: Remarks on the prehistory of the Sudan / Jacques Reinold and Lech Krzyzaniak. A-Group and Pre-Kerma / Charles Bonnet
- The First Kingdoms (2500-1075 B.C.). C-Group / Charles Bonnet. Egypt in Sudan: The Old and Middle Kingdoms / Jean Leclant. The Kingdom of Kerma / Charles Bonnet. Egypt in Sudan: The New Kingdom / Jean Leclant. The Image of the Nubian in Egyptian Art / Dietrich Wildung
- Napata and the Kushite Dynasty: Kings of the Sacred Mountain (1000-656 B.C.). Kings of the Sacred Mountain: Napata and the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt / Timothy Kendall
- The Kingdom of Napata and Meroe (650 B.C.-A.D. 500). The Kingdom of Napata and Meroe / Karl-Heinz Priese. The Kingdom of Meroe / Dietrich Wildung. Meroitic Writing and Language / Karl-Heinz Priese. The Meroitic Pantheon / Karl-Heinz Priese.
- Meroitic Treasure / Dietrich Wildung. Meroitic Ceramics / Dietrich Wildung. Meroe and Hellenism / Dietrich Wildung. Late Meroitic Culture / Dietrich Wildung. Meroitic Architecture / Friedrich Hinkel.
- Notes:
- This exhibition is presented in Paris by the Institut du Monde Arabe and co-produced with the City of Toulouse.
- Exhibition schedule: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Oct. 2, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997; Institut du monde arabe, Paris, Feb. 3-Aug. 31, 1997; De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Sept. 30-Feb. 1, 1998; Ensemble Conventuel des Jacobins, Toulouse, Feb. 20-May 23, 1998; Reiss-Museum, Mannheim, June 14-Sept. 20, 1998.
- English translation of: Sudan, antike Königreiche am Nil.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-424) and index.
- ISBN:
- 2080136372
- OCLC:
- 35829009
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