Visualizing the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt / Marjorie Susan Venit, University of Maryland.

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Venit, Marjorie Susan [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781316466384
1316466388
9781107256576
1107256577
9781316465608
1316465608

Other title:

Visualizing the after-life in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visualizing the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman EgyptDDC classification:

932/.02 23

LOC classification:

DT62.T6 V46 2016eb

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Contents:

Death, bilingualism, and biography in the 'eventide' of Egypt : the tomb of Petosiris and its afterlife -- Egypt as metaphor : visual bilingualism in the monumental tombs of ancient Alexandria -- Greek myth as metaphor in the Chora of Egypt -- Tradition and innovation in the tombs of Egyptian Chora -- Bricolage and Greek-collage in the tombs of the Egyptian Chora -- Intersection and interconnection in the visualization of the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt.

Scope and content: "Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had been subjected to critical analysis or interpretation, and most had largely been ignored. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances, as it sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had been subjected to critical analysis or interpretation, and most had largely been ignored. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances, as it sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife"-- Provided by publisher.