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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798643403321

Titolo

Ancient perspectives on Egypt / / edited by Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-43492-X

1-315-43493-8

1-315-43491-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Encounters with Ancient Egypt

Altri autori (Persone)

MatthewsRoger, Dr.

RoemerCornelia

Disciplina

932

Soggetti

Egypt History To 640 A.D

Egypt Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by UCL Press.

Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : the worlds of ancient Egypt: aspects, sources, interactions / Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer -- 2. South Levantine encounters with ancient Egypt at the beginning of the third millenium / Eliot Braun -- 3. Egyptian stone vessels and the politics of exchange (2617-1070 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- 4. Reconstructing the role of Egyptian culture in the value regimes of the Bronze age Aegean : stone vessels and their social contexts / Andrew Bevan -- 5. Love and war in the late Bronze age : Egypt and Hatti / David Warburton -- 6. Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late Bronze and Iron ages / David Warburton and Roger Matthews -- 7. Finding the Egyptian in early Greek art / Jeremy Tanner -- 8. Upside down and back to front : Herodotus and the Greek encounter with Egypt / Thomas Harrison -- 9. Encounters with ancient Egypt : the Hellenistic Greek experience / Csaba A. La'da -- 10. Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt : New perspectives on graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos / Ian Rutherford -- 11. Carry-on at Canopus : the Nilotic mosaic from



Palestrina and Roman attitudes to Egypt / Susan Walker -- 12. Roman poets on Egypt / Herwig Maehler.