Marjorie Susan Venit (College Park University of Maryland)

Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 220mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1112g
• ISBN-13: 9781107048089
• ISBN-10: 1107048087
• Artikelnr.: 43677656

Autorenporträt

Marjorie Susan Venit is Professor Emerita of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead and Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Her previous book projects have been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kress Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Among her other national awards are a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Association of University Women, and the American Philosophical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Death, bilingualism, and biography in the 'eventide' of Egypt: the Tomb
of Petosiris and its afterlife; 2. Egypt as metaphor: visual bilingualism
in the monumental tombs of ancient Alexandria; 3. Greek myth as metaphor in
the chora of Egypt; 4. Tradition and innovation in the tombs of the
Egyptian chora Tuna el-Gebel; 5. Bricolage and Greek-collage in the tombs
of the Egyptian chora; 6. Intersection and interconnection in the
negotiation of the afterlife in tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt.