The afterlives of Egyptian history : reuse and reformulation of objects, places, and texts : a volume in honor of Edward L. Bleiberg / edited by Yekaterina Barbash and Kathlyn M. Cooney ; with a preface by Kathy Zurek-Doule.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barbash, Yekaterina, editor.

Cooney, Kara, editor.

Zurek-Doule, Kathy, writer of preface.

Bleiberg, Edward, 1951- honouree.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, were already being adapted to function as human dwellings in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and socio-political circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Egyptian Afterlives in the Modern World

1. Egyptian Mummies at the Brooklyn Museum: Changing Attitudes and Perceptions / Lisa Bruno

2. The Survival of Ancient Egypt in Modern Culture: A Never-ending Story / Edmund S. Meltzer

3. The Ancient (Egyptian) Language of the Children of Dune / Joachim Friedrich Quack

4. The Montuemhat Crypt in the Mut Temple: A New Look / Mary McKercher

Section 2 Egyptian Afterlives in Antiquity

5. A Visit with the Egyptian Statues of the Alexandria Serapeum and Iseum Campense / Paul Edmund Stanwick

6. The Various Lives of Statues in the City of the Sun / Simon Connor

7. Egyptian Stone Vessels Abroad: Reuse and Reconfiguration / Peter Lacovara

Section 3 Egyptian Afterlives in Pharaonic Egypt

8. A Late Old Kingdom Stela in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (ROM 971.289) / Ronald J. Leprohon

9. A Case Study of Multiple Coffin Reuse in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh / Kathlyn M. Cooney

10. A New Version of Book of the Dead 30B: Art Institute Chicago Heart Scarab 1894.1359 / Emily Teeter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: The afterlives of Egyptian history

ISBN:

9781617979927

1617979929

OCLC:

1162391611

Publisher Number:

99990015660