Scarabs, scaraboids, seals and seal impressions from Medinet Habu / by Emily Teeter ; with post-pharaonic stamp seals and seal impressions by T.G. Wilfong ; based on the field notes of Uvo Hölscher and Rudolf Anthes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teeter, Emily.

Contributor:

Wilfong, Terry G.

University of Chicago. Oriental Institute.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications ; v. 118.

Oriental Institute publications ; v. 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Medinet Habu (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Egypt.

Medinet Habu (Extinct city)--Antiquities.

Medinet Habu (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

xxiv, 247 pages, 110 pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003.

Summary:

Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) is dominated by the great mortuary temples of King Ramesses III (ca. 1182 BC), and Kings Aye and Horemheb (ca. 1324-1293 BC). It served as the seat of the regional government in the Late New Kingdom, and an important Coptic Christian community grew up within its great fortification walls. For nearly 1,500 years Medinet Habu played a central role in Egyptian religion, life, and politics. In 1924, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago began the documentation of Medinet Habu, but the last facet of the documentation - the publication of thousands of objects excavated at the site - was interrupted by World War II. This book, the first of a projected multiple volume series, marks the resurrection of the project to publish the small finds. It includes a catalogue of 349 scarabs, scaraboids (including lentoids, cowroids, and buttons), heart scarabs and their Sons of Horus amulets, heart amulets, seals, and seal impressions on bullae, vessel stoppers, amphora handles, mudbricks, and funerary cones that date from approximately 1470 BC to the eighth century AD. Each object is described and illustrated and, whenever possible, placed in its original archaeological context. These scarabs and scaraboids comprise one of the largest groups of such material excavated from any site in Egypt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xxiv).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1885923228

OCLC:

54360768