Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Informationen zum Autor Marjorie Susan Venit is Professor Emerita of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead and Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Her previous book projects have been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kress Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Among her other national awards are a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Association of University Women, and the American Philosophical Society. Klappentext This book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE-250 CE). Zusammenfassung This book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE–250 CE). The author contextualizes the tombs within their social, political, and religious context and considers how the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Death, bilingualism, and biography in the 'eventide' of Egypt: the Tomb of Petosiris and its afterlife; 2. Egypt as metaphor: visual bilingualism in the monumental tombs of ancient Alexandria; 3. Greek myth as metaphor in the chora of Egypt; 4. Tradition and innovation in the tombs of the Egyptian chora Tuna el-Gebel; 5. Bricolage and Greek-collage in the tombs of the Egyptian chora; 6. Intersection and interconnection in the negotiation of the afterlife in tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt.

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Venit, Marjorie Susan Venit, Marjorie Susan (University of Maryland Venit, Venit Marjorie Susan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781107048089
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04808-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, African history: pre-colonial period