The Fayum landscape : ten thousand years of archaeology, texts, and traditions in Egypt / Claire J. Malleson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malleson, Claire, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fayyūm (Egypt)--History.

Fayyūm (Egypt).

Fayyūm (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Egypt--Fayyūm.

Fayyūm (Egypt)--History.

Fayyūm (Egypt).

Fayyūm (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Egypt.

Fayyūm.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2019.

Summary:

Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In 'The Fayum Landscape' Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have, through millennia, perceived and engaged with the Fayum landscape.0Distinguishing between the experienced landscape of state and bureaucratic record and the imagined landscape of myth, meaning, and observers' personal influences and expectations, Malleson questions in detail where those perceptions come from. She traces religious practices, follows the tracks of myths and traditions, and investigates the roots of stories found in texts from the pharaonic, classical, and Medieval Islamic periods. She also reviews many, more recent travel writings on the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The work of each author is presented in its historical and cultural context, and Malleson integrates what is known about ancient activities in the Fayum, based on the archaeological evidence from the many monuments and ancient settlements that exist in the region.

Contents:

1 The Landscape: The Fayum p. 1

2 Academic Landscape: Theory in Archaeology and Geography p. 25

3 Landscape of the Lake: The Ancient Egyptian Fayum (7500-332 BC) p. 37

4 Changing Landscape: Herodotus and the Greco-Roman/Late Antique Fayum (450 BC-AD 642) p. 93

5 Legendary Landscape: Medieval Islamic Accounts (AD 860-1442) p. 147

6 Explored Landscape: Western Accounts (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries) p. 189

7 Ten Thousand Years of Archaeology, Texts, and Traditions p. 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789774168833

9774168836

OCLC:

1035138898

Publisher Number:

99984225398