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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818311503321

Autore

Veldmeijer A. J.

Titolo

The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project : final archaeological analysis / / André J. Veldmeijer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Sidestone Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-8890-734-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Disciplina

932

Soggetti

Footwear - Egypt - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt

History

Egypt

Ägypten Altertum

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP) is a multidisciplinary, ongoing research of footwear in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic through the Ottoman Periods. It consists of the study of actual examples of footwear, augmented by pictorial and textual evidence.0This volume evaluates, summarises and discusses the results of the study of footwear carried out by the AEFP for the last 10 years (which includes the objects in the major collections in the world, such as the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, as well as from various excavations, such as Amarna, Elephantine and Dra Abu el-Naga). All published material is depicted and some previously unpublished material is added here.0The work on physical examples of footwear has brought to light exciting new insights into ancient Egyptian technology and craftsmanship (including its development but also in the relationships of various footwear categories and their origin), establishing and refining the dating of technologies and styles of footwear, the diversity of footwear, provided a means of identification of provenance for



unprovenanced examples, and the relationship between footwear and socio-economic status. The archaeometrical research has lead to the reinterpretation of ancient Egyptian words for various vegetal materials, such as papyrus.