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The Kingdom of Kush
The individual character of Kingdom of Kush has often been overshadowed by the overwhelming cultural presence of its neighbour Egypt. This handbook in our series "Handbuch der Orientalistik/Handbook of Oriental Studies" for the first time presents a comprehensive survey of the rich textual, archaeological and art historical evidence for this Middle Nile Region Kingdom of Kush. Basing itself both on the evidence and scholarly literature, this work discusses the emergence of the native state of Kush (after the Pharaonic domination in the 11th century B.C.), the rule of the Kings of Kush in Egypt (c. 760-656) and the intellectual foundations and political history of the Kingdom in the Napatan (7th - 3rd centuries) and Meroitic (3rd century B.C. - 4th century A.D.) periods.
Between Two Worlds
The Egyptological literature usually belittles or ignores the political and intellectual initiative and success of the Nubian Twenty-Fifth Dynasty in the reunification of Egypt, while students of Nubian history frequently ignore or misunderstand the impact of Egyptian ideas on the cultural developments in pre- and post-Twenty-Fifth-Dynasty Nubia. This book re-assesses the textual and archaeological evidence concerning the interaction between Egypt and the polities emerging in Upper Nubia between the Late Neolithic period and 500 AD. The investigation is carried out, however, from the special viewpoint of the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of the frontier region b...
Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan
An analytical bibliography that contains 7407 references, covering the Egyptian prehistory (palaeolithic, neolithic and predynastic) as well as the period of the first two dynasties.
The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza
In The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza Leo Roeten presents a method that evaluates the degree of interaction between the various decoration themes that are placed on the western wall of the cult chapels at the tombs of Giza. Diagrams resulting from that method show that during the 5th dynasty the focus of the mode of food supply for the ka of the deceased changed from primarily active to primarily magical. On the other walls of the chapel this change not only led to the loss of some secondary cultic functions like the inviting and guiding functions, but also to an increasing focus on scenes from the daily life of the tomb owner.
The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art
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.
Anthropology at Harvard
The history of anthropology at Harvard is told through vignettes about the people, famous and obscure, who shaped the discipline at Harvard College and the Peabody Museum. The role of amateurs and private funders in the early growth of the field is highlighted, as is the participation of women and of students and scholars of diverse ethnicities.
Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910
Preliminary Material /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Inception and Conditions of the Work /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Summary Account of the Excavations of 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Description of Objects Found in 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Organization of the Expedition /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Methods of Excavation /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Identification of the Remains of the Several Periods /George Andrew Rei...
