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The image of the ordered world in ancient Nubian art : the construction of the Kushite mind, 800 BC-300 AD / by László Török.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT159.6.N83 T58 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Török, László, 1941-2020.
- Series:
- Probleme der Ägyptologie ; 18. Bd.
- Probleme der Ägyptologie, 0169-9601 ; 18. Bd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temples.
- Sacred space.
- Nubia--Civilization.
- Nubia.
- Nubia--Antiquities.
- Sacred space--Nubia.
- Temples--Nubia.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 525 pages, 59 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
- Summary:
- This volume presents the first comprehensive study of the Kushite concepts of order in the state and in the cosmos as they were conceptualized in royal and temple texts, in urban architecture, in the structure of temple iconography, and in the relationship between the society and the temples as places of popular worship, archives of historical memory, and centres of cultural identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-503) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004123067
- OCLC:
- 47161292
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