Ancient perspectives on Egypt

Language: English

Seller: Meretseger Books, Paris, FranceMeretseger Books

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UCL Press, Institute of Archaeology, London, 2003. First edition. In-8, xiii & 253 pages, 4 plates. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: 1. The worlds of ancient Egypt -- aspects, sources, interactions / Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer -- 2. South Levantine encounters with ancient Egypt at the beginning of the third millennium / Eliot Braun -- 3. Egyptian stone vessels and the politics of exchange (2617-1070 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- 4. Reconstructing the role of Egyptian culture in the value regimes of the bronze age Aegean: stone vessels and their social contexts / Andrew Bevan -- 5. Love and war in the late bronze age: Egypt and Hatti / David Warburton -- 6. Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late bronze and iron ages / David Warburton and Roger Matthews -- 7. Finding the Egyptian in early Greek art / Jeremy Tanner -- 8. Upside down and back to front: Herodotus and the Greek encounter with Egypt / Thomas Harrison -- 9. Encounters with ancient Egypt: the Hellenistic Greek experience / Csaba A. Lad_a -- 10. Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt: new perspectives on graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos / Ian Rutherford -- 11. Carry-on at Canopus: the Nilotic mosaic from Palestrina and Roman attitudes to Egypt / Susan Walker -- 12. Roman poets on Egypt / Herwig Maehler. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Old Kingdom & 1st IP, Middle Kingdom & 2nd IP, New Kingdom, 3rd IP, Greco-Roman, Rome, Greece & Aegean.…

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Title
Ancient perspectives on Egypt
Author
MATTHEWS Roger - ROEMER Cornelia (editors)
Language
English
Seller catalogs
Egypt, Greece & Aegean, Rome

Meretseger Books

Paris, France

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Meretseger Bookshop specializes in Ancient Egypt, offering rare second-hand books on pharaonic, Greek or Coptic Egypt. Books ships mostly from Europe or from the USA.

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