The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art: The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 BC - 300 Ad

This volume presents the first comprehensive study of the Kushite concepts of order in the state and in the cosmos as they were conceptualized in royal and temple texts, in urban architecture, in the structure of temple iconography, and in the relationship between the society and the temples as places of popular worship, archives of historical memory, and centres of cultural identity.

About the author

László Török, Dr (1992) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in History, is Honorary Professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has published extensively on the history and archaeology of the Middle Nile Region (Nubia) and on Egyptian art in the Hellenistic and Late Antique periods.

Product details

• Authors: László Török
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9789004123069
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12306-9
• No. of pages: 610
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1207 g
• Series: Probleme Der Ägyptologie
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design