Old Kingdom, new perspectives : Egyptian art and archaeology 2750-2150 BC / edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Strudwick, Nigel.

Strudwick, Helen.

Conference Name:

Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference (2009 : Cambridge, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Egypt--Antiquities--Congresses.

Egypt.

Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent research on all aspects of the Old Kingdom in Egypt is presented in this volume, ranging through the Pyramid Texts, tomb architecture, ceramics, scene choice and layout, field reports, cemetery layout, tomb and temple statuary. The contributions also show how Egyptology is not stuck in its venerable traditions but that newer forms of technology are being used to great effect by Egyptologists. For example, two papers show how GIS technology can shed light on cemetery arrangement and how 3D scanners can be employed in the process of producing facsimile drawings of reliefs and inscriptions

Contents:

Introduction / Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick

Recent work in the tomb of Nebkauhor at Saqqara / Abdou el-Kerety

A new Old Kingdom rock-cut tomb from Abusir and its Abusir-Saqqara context / Miroslav Barta

Mastaba core structure: new data from Fourth Dynasty elite tombs at Abu Rawash / Michel Baud and Eric Guerrier

The art of Egyptian hieroglyphs as seen by the Akhmim painters / V. G. Callender

Two cemeteries for one provincial capital? Deir el-Bersha and el-Sheikh Said in the fifteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the Old Kingdom / Marleen De Meyer

Blocks from the Unas causeway recorded in Cerny's notebooks at the Griffith Institute, Oxford / Andres Diego Espinel

A spatial metaphor for chronology in the secondary cemeteries at Giza / May Farouk

The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafre at Giza / Laurel Flentye

Reading the Menkaure triads: part II (multi-directionality) / Florence Dunn Friedman

The death of the democratisation of the afterlife / Harold M. Hays

A new specific tomb type in Abusir? / Jaromir Krejci

An afterworld for Netjerykhet / Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz

Re-examining the Khentkaues town / Mark Lehner, Daniel Jones, Lisa Yeomans, Hanan Mahmoud and Kasia Olchowska

Searching for an undistorted template (digital epigraphy in action) / Jolana Malatkova

The "reserve heads": some remarks on their function and meaning / Massimiliano Nuzzolo

The evidence of images: art and working techniques in the mastaba of Mereruka / Gabriele Pieke

The concept of XPRR in Old Kingdom religious texts / Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska

Twisted kilts: variations in aspective representation in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels / Ann Macy Roth

And where are the viscera? reassessing the function of Old Kingdom canopic recesses and pits / Teodozja I. Rzeuska

Fixed rules or personal choice? on the composition and arrangement of daily life scenes in Old Kingdom elite tombs / Nico Staring

Village, town and barracks: a Fourth Dynasty settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza / Ana Tavares

An Old Kingdom bakery at Sheikh Said south: preliminary report on the pottery corpus / Stefanie Vereecken

Why was the Fifth Dynasty cemetery founded at Abusir? / Miroslav Verner and Vladimir Bruna

The economic connection between the royal cult in the pyramid temples and the sun temples in Abusir / Hana Vymazalova

The Ancient Egypt Research Associates settlement site at Giza: the Old Kingdom ceramic distribution / Anna Wodzinska

Zss wad scenes of the Old Kingdom revisited / Alexandra Woods.

Notes:

Proceedings of the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, held May 20-23, 2009 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842176757

1842176757

9781842176771

1842176773

OCLC:

831118134