Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107048087
ISBN-13
9781107048089
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 24th, 2015
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
119 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 30.50 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
African historyClassical history / classical civilisationEgyptian archaeology / Egyptology
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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.
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. 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 (c.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. This book 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.
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