The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt
Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion
Christina Riggs
Price: £97.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927665-3
Publication date: 5 January 2006
358 pages, 8 color plates; 126 in-text illus., 246x189 mm
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture
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| - 'Invaluable...This study succeeds in placing the material in its rightful place as a fine example of what happens when three great artistic traditions meet and interact.' - Judith Corbelli, Ancient Egypt
- 'A pioneering study of the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt.' - Times Literary Supplement
- '...impressive and richly documented...' - David Frankfurter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- 'The strength of this study is the detail and nuance of its discussion of the artistic material...a significant contribution.' - Journal of Classics Teaching, Issue 12
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| Description | | - A pioneering study of the interaction between Greek and Roman art, and Egyptian art
- An essential new source for the artefacts discussed, many of which are published here for the first time
| | This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art,
supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt. |
Readership: Scholars and students of Egyptology, classical archaeology, papyrology, and art history
| Contents |
1.
Introduction: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion
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Osiris, Hathor, and the Gendered Dead
3.
Portraying the Dead
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The Funerary Art of Western Thebes
5.
Conclusions: The `Beautiful Burial' in Roman Egypt
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| Authors, editors,
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Christina Riggs, Curator of Egyptology, The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
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