Epigraphy through five millennia : texts and images in context / edited by Svenja C. Dirksen and Lena S. Krastel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dirksen, Svenja C., editor.

Krastel, Lena S., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Sonderschrift (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo) ; 43.

Sonderschrift ; 43

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Egyptian.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, 1 folded), maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2020.

Language Note:

17 English, 2 German contributions.

Summary:

"For thousands of years, people have expressed their cultural and religious ideas in pictorial and written form. The academic field of epigraphy is concerned with the very same legacies, which have been written, painted, engraved or chiseled on various materials. The group of sources studied includes a range of visual and textual media, such as stelae and statues, as well as rock faces and buildings. Although epigraphy was considered an auxiliary science in the past, it has now developed into an independent and important scientific discipline with a wide range of research possibilities"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

An archaeological and cultural study of three Islamic sandstone el-Latif Ibrahim stelae recently discovered on Elephantine Island, Aswan / Lena S. Krastel, Mohamed A. Abd

Men at work: textless rock inscriptions in the Aswan area / Linda Borrmann-D|cker

Royal stelae revisited. Neue Überlegungen zu altbekannten Texten / Linda Borrmann-D|cker

Of fish and vendors. The Khnum Temple Graffiti Project / Jitse H. F. Dijkstra

Of signs and space. Rock art in Wadi Berber, Aswan / Rebecca D̲hl

Meroitische Inschriften im Gebiet des Ersten Katarakts / Jochen Hallof

Rock art and the transformation of landscape in the Kharga Oasis / Salima Ikram

The rock art landscape of the Wadi Abu Dom, Northern Sudan / Tim Karberg

Epipalaeolithic rock art from the east bank near Aswan. Types, landscape, and meaning / Adel Kelany

The epigraphy of Philae / Holger Kockelmann Vom Hofpflaster zur dritten Dimension. Der Kontext der Graffiti des Chnumtempelvorhofs von Elephantine / Tobias Krapf

Words for the living and the dead. The Coptic inscriptions of Deir Anba Hadra / Lena S. Krastel

Tightrope dancing. Research on religious building decorations on Ptolemaic-Roman Elephantine / Ewa Laskowska-Kusztal

Cross-cultural contact reflected in rock-art from Rod el-Air, south-western Sinai / Ludwig D. Morenz

Religion and epigraphy at Elephantine in the Graeco-Roman Period / Hana Navratilova

The case of the deity Neilammon / Ian Rutherford

Rock art through the ages / Maria Nilsson

Rupestrian memoranda at Gebel el-Silsila / John Ward

World of images or imaginary world? Rock art, landscape, and agency in the Western Desert of Egypt / Paweł L. Polkowski

Walking up Hermupolis high street: lost in translation? Script in public spaces of Hellenistic Egypt and beyond / Cornelia R̲mer Who carved first? A methodological approach for analysing the stratigraphy of intersecting and interacting rock art at the 'resting-place' of Rod el-Air, south-western Sinai / David Sabel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9783447113847

3447113847

OCLC:

1197943799

Publisher Number:

9783447113847