Mural decoration in the Theban necropolis : papers from the Theban Workshop 2016 / edited by Betsy M. Bryan and Peter F. Dorman.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bryan, Betsy Morrell, editor.

Dorman, Peter, 1948- editor.

University of Chicago. Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, publisher.

Conference Name:

Theban Workshop (2016 : Baltimore, Md.)

Series:

Occasional proceedings of the Theban Workshop

Studies in ancient cultures ; no. 2.

Studies in ancient cultures ; number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct city).

Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian.

Egypt--Thebes (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

lvi, 252 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, [2023]

Summary:

"The tombs and mortuary temples of Thebes have proved an enduring topic of interest thanks to a quickly expanding corpus of field materials and a series of conferences devoted to the subject. This volume, the fourth in a series of occasional proceedings from the ongoing Theban Workshop, presents new research on wall decoration in the Theban necropolis. Its thirteen essays, by an international array of leading scholars, attest to the wide and varied scope of the theme."-- Taken from back cover.

"Theban private tombs have proved to constitute a durable and perennial topic of interest due to a quickly expanding corpus of field materials and a series of conferences devoted to this area of research. .. In addition to the monographs emanating from these conferences, the present publication presents the results of the most recent Theban Workshop held at The Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore on April 22-24, 2016, and illuminates to what extent new sources are still coming to light and how older materials are being reassessed to explore new questions. The contributors to this monograph have considered the various ways in which tomb owners have chosen to represent themselves in their memorial chapels, occasionally in very deliberate and idiosyncratic ways; how earlier tomb and temple motifs were researched and reorganized for reuse in the Theban necropolis; the challenges faced by stonecutters and painters in decorating monuments within the difficult geomorphology of the western hills; how artistic "hands" can be assessed in positing the source and nature of the workforce in Theban tombs; the thematic connections between tomb chapels or burial chambers and the objects intended to be placed within those spaces; and the intentional choice of tomb themes to engage visitors of later generations both in responding to decorative motifs and in the posthumous honoring of the deceased and devotion to the gods of the necropolis."-- Taken from Preface, page [xv].

Contents:

Tomb painting in an age of decline: Late Ramesside Theban tombs / Tamás A. Bács, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Visibility and hiddenness: Relational meanings of architectural depictions in Eighteenth Dynasty Pre-Amarna tomb decoration / Betsy M. Bryan, The Johns Hopkins University

Golden coffins, golden tombs: Innovation and the display of social power / Kathlyn M. Cooney, University of California, Los Angeles

The tomb chapel of Hery (TT 12) in context / José M. Galán, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid

Scribal captions and painting in the tomb chapel of Neferrenpet (TT 43) / Melinda Hartwig, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

Three generations of Ramesside foremen honoring goddesses: The case for Anuket and Hathor in the Neferhotep family / Deanna Kiser-Go, University of California, Berkeley

On the alleged involvement of the Deir el-Medina crew in the making of elite tombs in the Theban necropolis during the Eighteenth Dynasty: A reassessment / Dimitri Laboury, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Université de Liège

Epigraphic interaction with the Theban tombs' decoration: The case of graffiti and visitors' inscriptions / Chloé C. D. Ragazzoli, Centre de recherches égyptologiques de la Sorbonne

A new look at Meketre's sporting boat / Catharine H. Roehrig, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two previously unrecorded decorated Eighteenth Dynasty private tombs / Gerry D. Scott III, American Research Center in Egypt

The historicity of Theban tomb decoration / JJ Shirley, Managing Editor, Journal of Egyptian History; Director, TT 110 Field School

All good and pure things on which the God lives: Toward a study of intericonicity in the Chapel of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari / Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw

The journey of Harwa: An initiatory path in a funerary monument of the Seventh Century BC / Francesco Tiradritti, University "Kore" of Enna, Italian Archaeology Mission to Luxor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-lvi).

Other Format:

Online version: Theban Workshop (2016 : Baltimore, Md.). Mural decoration in the Theban necropolis.

ISBN:

9781614910893

1614910898

OCLC:

1390608707