‎RAWLINSON, George / GILMAN, Arthur (with coll. of):‎
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‎Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Colour Blue in Ancient Egypt and Sudan‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 294, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 143 col., 8 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503620138.‎

‎Summary From the earliest days of Pharaonic and Kushite cultures, blue was a highly valued colour. Initially sourced in the mineral world, with stones of various shades being collected and used for personal ornamentation, and later from dye plants - whose blue hues required complex extraction - blue became a symbol of prestige and innovation. Since blue is relatively rare in its raw natural form, synthetic methods of making blue were developed early on, leading to the creation of the colour through crafts like faience, glassmaking, and pigment production. Made and used in different ways, and invested with many meanings, the colour blue became omnipresent in material culture and architecture. This volume is a collaborative anthology exploring the significance of blue in ancient Egypt and Sudan. It brings together experts from diverse fields - art history, archaeology, linguistics, textile and leather studies, conservation, and heritage science - to examine the Nile Valley's material world through a 'blue lens'. The book investigates the cultural, technological, and symbolic dimensions of blue, tracing how people discovered, imitated, dyed, painted, carved, and experienced the colour. Through integrative research that crosses the boundaries of the humanities and natural sciences, the volume offers a groundbreaking perspective on colour studies, revealing how the pursuit of blue drove artistic and technological advancements across time. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Material and Immaterial Perspectives to the Colour Blue in Ancient Egypt and Sudan Elsa Yvanez and Cecilie Br ns 2. What's so Special about Blue? Some Thoughts on Blue Materials and their Manufacture in Ancient Egypt Paul Nicholson 3. Faience in Kush: First Overview of the Material, its Meanings, and Significance Shadia Abdrhabo 4. Supplying the Mediterranean World with Egyptian Blue: An Archaeometric Perspective Alexandra Rodler and Ariadne Marketou 5. The Colour of the Monkey and the Background: Blue Colours in Old Kingdom Wall Paintings Kaori Takahashi, Ahmed Abdrabou, Yoko Taniguchi, Mostafa Shehata, Akiko Nishisaka, and Hussein Kamal 6. Ornamental and Scriptural Blue in the Ptolemaic Temple of Deir el-Medina Sandrine Vuilleumier 7. Eternity Under a Cyan Sky: Assembling Blue at 25th Dynasty El Kurru, Sudan Rachael J. Dann 8. Material and Non-material Aspects of the Colour Blue in Medieval Nubia Magdalena Wozniak and Dobrochna Zieli?ska 9. Blue Threads along the Middle Nile: Multidisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Passion for Indigo (Sudan, c. First-Sixth Century CE) Elsa Yvanez, Bart?omiej Witkowski, Tomasz Gierczak, and Magdalena Biesaga 10. Green Is the New Blue: Coloured Leather in Ancient Egypt - An Archaeometric Approach Lucy Skinner and Andr J. Veldmeijer 11. 'Marvels from the land of Tefrore': Lapis lazuli and Dark Blue Minerals in Egyptian Temples Stefan Baumann 12. A Case of the Blues? Blue in the Egyptian Medical Texts Joseph Clayton 13. The Egyptians Didn't Have Blue - Because They Had Two, and You Should Too! Blue as a Witness to Cognitive Evolution on an Issue Dividing Anthropology and Philology at the Cost of Historical Linguistics David A. Warburton 14. Blue Eyes: The Apotropaic Qualities of Blue Karel Innem e 15. Epilogue. A Dyer's View on Blue: The Colour of Transformation Fria Gemynthe Index‎

‎Clashing Religions in Ancient Egypt Exploring Different Layers of Religious Beliefs‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardcover 268 Pages: Size:178 x 254 mm Illustrations:22 b/w, 19 col., 4 tables b/w. Language English NEW. ISBN 9782503614168.‎

‎What did ?religion? mean for the Ancient Egyptians? Was the state involved in acting as a unifying and founding force for Egyptian religion or can we still identify some clashes between different religious practices? To what extent did different rituals, practices, and beliefs intersect and merge across time and space? Such questions have long preoccupied scholars working in the field, but they have often only been considered through the lens of official, ?centralized? texts. Yet increasingly, there is an acknowledgment that such texts require calibration from archaeological data in order to offer a more nuanced understanding of how people must have lived and worshipped. The chapters gathered in the volume aim to offer a thorough exploration of Egyptian cultural and religious beliefs, and to explore how these impacted on other areas of daily life. Contributors explore the connection between religion and central power, the paradigms around burial and access to the afterlife, the interconnections between religion, demonology, magic, and medicine, and the impact of multicultural interaction on the religious landscape. What emerges from this discussion is an understanding that the only truly identifiable clash is that between modern, Eurocentric perspectives and the views of the ancient Egyptians themselves. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Clashing Religions? Marilina Betr 2. Religion and Community in Egypt in the Third Millennium BC Juan Carlos Moreno Garc a 3. Festivals, Religion and Economy. The Evidence from the Sun Temple of Niuserre Massimiliano Nuzzolo 4. The Changing Face of Royal Patronage at Abydos in The Old Kingdom (Fourth ? Sixth Dynasties) Paul Whelan 5. Ancient Egyptian Demonology between Modern Preconceptions and New Perspectives Gabriele Mario Conte 6. A Princess? Burial: Funerals and Ancestor Cult in the Extended Royal Family in the Time of Amenhotep III Susanne Bickel 7. Modelling Strategies of Commemoration. The Case of the Huy Clan Lara Weiss 8. Athena-Minerva and Zeus-Jupiter in Egypt. Reflections on a Relief in the Cairo Museum (CGC 27570) Gaelle Tallet 9. Poseidon in the Theban Desert. Stratigraphies of Beliefs and Layered Reminiscences of the Religious Past in Late Antique Egyptian Literature Paola Buzi 10. When Religion Becomes Countable: The Case of Ancient Egypt Gianluca Miniaci‎

‎Snegirev I.L., Frantsov Y.P. Pavlov V.V. Ancient Egypt Essays on the Art of An‎

‎Snegirev I.L., Frantsov Y.P. Pavlov V.V. Ancient Egypt Essays on the Art of Ancient Egypt Tales and Tales of Ancient Egypt. Translated from Ancient Egypt by I.S. Katsnelson and F.A. Mendelsohn. Artist F.Konstantinov. In Russian /Snegirev I.L., Frantsov Yu.P.Pavlov V.V. Drevniy Egipet Ocherki po iskusstvu Drevnego Egipta Skazki i povesti drevnego Egipta. Per. s drevneegipetskogo I.S. Katsnelsona i F.A. Mendelsona. Khudozhnik F. Konstantinov. Historical Essay of 85 Illustrations Translation from Ancient Egyptian. L. M. M. Sotsekgiz GIIIIH 1938. 1936. 1956. 300s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbddc6a37c6b1f1ffc.‎

‎Storage in Ancient Egypt and Nubia.‎

‎<p>Texte en anglais et en français.</p><p>In 2020 and 2021 the<span></span><em>Research Group on Storage in Ancient Egypt and Sudan</em><span></span>organised two online workshops focusing on earthen storage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Following these two meetings, the nine contributions of this volume present often unpublished case studies (from the IVth millennium<span></span><span class="caps">BCE</span><span></span>to the Greco-Roman Period), as well as issues and perspectives of current research. They are authored by archaeologists working in Egypt, Sudan and Western Africa as well as architects specialised in earthen architecture.</p><p>The interdisciplinary approach adopted to investigate storage strategies along the ancient Nile Valley effectively address the subject’s complexity and the socioeconomic issues involved, which not only pertain to the ancient world but are also relevant to modern-day societies. Throughout the volume, functional and technical analysis of the architectural and archaeological remains helps understand how specific layouts, building materials and techniques were employed in the past to create suitable conditions for short-, medium- and long-term storage.</p><p>Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological comparisons with West African vernacular traditions are used as a fruitful line of research for better understand of building practices, storage strategies and possible volumes of archaeological remains. Furthermore, extending the scope of the research to other geographical areas shows how different human groups may have used similar responses to overcome similar technical problems. Ancient and traditional practices and know-how, on the other hand, proved effective in a contemporary onion storehouse project in Senegal to find sustainable, low-cost solutions to protection and development of local products.</p><p>The volume also include the preliminary results of an experimental archaeology project which led to the construction of a mud-brick silo – according to ancient Egyptian techniques – and further ensiling. The issue is highly topical since these ancient earthen facilities offer valuable information for the current debates on sustainable strategies for foodstuff storage.</p> Leiden, 2023. Sidestone Press 196 p., nombreuses illustrations en couleur et N/B, broché. 21 X 28‎

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‎Guide to the Writings from Ancient Egypt. IF 1280. GIFAO 4.‎

‎<meta charset="utf-8"><span data-mce-fragment="1">Many scripts were used in ancient Egypt. If the hieroglyphs quite obviously take the lion's share, it is all the richness of the different writings that were used on the land of the pharaohs that is exposed here. What do we know about the writings of ancient Egypt, two hundred years after Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs ? This Guide answers the question in an easily accessible format, presenting the current state of knowledge on the different scripts that were used in the Land of Pharaohs.</span><br data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1">The reader will find more than fifty articles written by specialists, presenting the diversity of scripts in time and space, explaining the main principles of their functioning, and describing the main contexts in which they were used. The guide begins by offering an overview of the scripts of Egypt, from the appearance of hieroglyphs up to the introduction of Arabic writing. It then explores the multiple aspects of hieroglyphic writing : the number of glyphs and their classification, the relationship between written glyphs and figurative representations, the organization in space and the materiality of hieroglyphs, the relationship of hieroglyphic writing to spoken language, as well as the play on symbols and other so-called enigmatic uses.</span><br data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1">Finally, the guide focuses on the main uses of writing in ancient Egypt. Learning how to write, the use of movable and monumental material, inscriptions on objects and graffiti, the destruction of writing and systems of symbols are all practices that are considered. The use of writing for specific purposes-such as administrative, funerary or magical-or in specific socio-historical contexts is also adressed.</span> Le Caire, 2024 IFAO 360 p., nombreuses photographies, broché. 14,5 x 22‎

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