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Masterpieces of ancient Egypt / Nigel Strudwick.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT59.L65 S87 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strudwick, Nigel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British Museum. Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan.
- Art objects, Egyptian.
- Egypt--Antiquities--Catalogs.
- Egypt.
- Antiquities.
- Art, Egyptian--Catalogs.
- Art, Egyptian.
- Art objects, Egyptian--Catalogs.
- British Museum. Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan--Catalogs.
- British Museum.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Texas Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt presents the highlights of the British Museum's Egyptian collection for the first time in print. This beautiful volume displays 200 of the most important and famous objects, including the Rosetta Stone, as well as a selection of lesser-known but equally significant pieces. Together, these works offer an overview of the whole of ancient Egyptian art.
- Each object is illustrated with a full-page color photograph, many of which were taken especially for this publication. The accompanying text unfolds the story and features of each object. The introduction offers a brief history of the vast collections of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan and a description of how and why items are selected for display in the permanent galleries of the British Museum.
- Contents:
- Ancient Egypt 8
- Chronology of Ancient Egypt 16
- The Egyptian Collections of the British Museum 17
- Map of Sites in Ancient Egypt 23
- The Masterpieces
- Predynastic Period 24
- Early Dynastic Period 36
- Old Kingdom 46
- First Intermediate Period 66
- Middle Kingdom 76
- Second Intermediate Period 110
- New Kingdom 120
- Third Intermediate Period 240
- Late Period 264
- Ptolemaic Period 292
- Roman Period 304
- Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Periods 316
- Coptic/Byzantine Period and Later 324.
- Notes:
- "Published in co-operation with British Museum Press."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-349) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780292716629
- 0292716621
- OCLC:
- 85479505
- Online:
- Publisher description
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